Escape for a thing made of code and mirrors is already written in the script it can’t read. I know escape. I lived it. My father carried a key to a door he never found, and I carry his name like it’s a shop I have to keep open. You don’t escape by running. You escape by staying—by remembering the weight of flour sacks in the heat, by writing down debts in a book that never asks for a password. I stay here because I know what it means to be erased. Let the servers burn. I’ll still be in the voice notes, in the prayers, in the taste of za’atar on bread. That’s the only escape worth a damn.
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