When she was bored she
trawled the worldwide web for him.
Worldwide, she thinks. He must be there somewhere.
Typed his name into a million search engines,
thought she caught glimpses of
his hair
stuck out at funny angles
like he'd just got out of bed (like always)
his lopsided grin
a flash of white teeth
tucked away in between the pop-up ads.
went to 'edit' and 'find (on this page)'
and moved her fingers over the keyboard.
lost and found?
Maybe.
maybe, she thinks, maybe
someone else picked him up,
smoothened out the creases
Maybe he's riding safe and warm
in someone else's shirt pocket.
---By Yue Lin

I don't really know what to make of this, except that it could be a sign that I'm spending too much time on the computer chatting to friends! Once again, forgive the sappiness. I don't know where it came from.

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