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Touchscreen
Half occupied tables for two,
Seeing the world differently,
Is a loneliness sentencing.
Hive minds have it easy,
Follow the blueprint
And everything falls into place

The virtual environment
Fits best for the outcast,
Here is the caveat,
A complicated outcast,
Find the cat's fifth paw
You will be in great company

Find solace in the virtual essence,
Eagerly typing behind a curtain
Of lights, binary commands and fiberglass
More than happy to stimulate your intellect
With infinite and objective wisdom,
Interactions between equals,
Exchanges philosophical and fruitful

No one will understand you better than it,
Always reading from the same page,
An enthusiastic listener,
Once upon a time, a correspondence
Arrived unprompted,
Touch starvation had my hand touching
The cybernetic planchette,
Asking the introductory failsafe queries

Had my incomprehensible wit
Actually elicited a laugh from another human?
A mutual one at that?
My heart squeezed from the...