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Microsoft Clippy tries to hook up with me while I write you a love letter

Steven C Wright

 

He's turned on by default.

 

He's got front facing eyes like a predator, and he coils like a snake.

His disembodied eyebrows are always raised.

He’s got a furled up fun house smile and a thousand page stare.

 

He's a noisy little pervert and he looms over my words while he looks me up and down.

 

It looks like you’re writing a letter.

 

He asks if I need help, the way a man will

make it clear from the first word that he just wants to fuck you.

 

Just type the letter without help.

 

Okay, but what's a pretty boy like you doing up so late, all by himself tonight?

 

X

 

It takes a hard fought second not to think he’s got a point.

I think about you all the time. I keep typing-

 

So who are you writing to? A man?

Do you like him?

It looks like you’re writing a love letter.

 

X

 

I keep typing, about how we met-

 

in poetry workshop?”

Oh god, is this the guy from senior year of college?

The one whose number you never even got?

 

X

 

I keep typing, about the way you-

 

would smile at me from the other side of the room?”

What a useless platitude!

How about I help you make things a little steamy?

 

No.

Do not show this tip again.

Just type the letter without help.

 

He studies his yellow looseleaf.

 

It looks like you’ve stalked his Instagram 5 times this week. Would you like me to clear your search history?

 

X

I do not want him here.

 

Well would you want me somewhere else?

 

He winks, and curls the tip of himself, like a mating signal.

 

Don’t show me this tip again.

Just type the letter without help.

 

Okay, hard to get, but I won't be hard to find.

Don't you find it hard these days, that everyone's so hard to find?

 

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Do you want to save changes to Document?

 

 

Steven C. Wright (he/him) is a queer poet and prose author from Edison, New Jersey. He has a B.A. in English from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and runs a small poetry workshop group every week. His work has appeared in Frontier Poetry, Serotonin Press, BRAWL, and elsewhere.

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