If/Then: A Love Story in Conditional Statements
If/Then: A Love Story in Conditional Statements
My first attempt at code-poetry
if girl.exists and boy.meets(girl):
boy.heartbeat += 30
world.brightness *= 1.2
time.freeze()
They met in September, wrapped in Wi-Fi and shared playlists.
Her laugh wasn’t in any dataset he knew,
so he saved it, locally, redundantly.
if girl.texts_back:
boy.smile(True)
log("still interested")
else:
boy.overthink("was_it_the_typing_dot?")
boy.replay.conversation(last_5_lines)
Love, for him, was an API call he wasn’t sure he had access to.
She replied quickly at first.
Then with delays.
Then not at all.
while boy.waits:
boy.rewrites_memory(version="what_i_should_have_said")
hope -= 1
He wanted to debug the silence
but the problem wasn’t in the code -
it was in the randomness of human input.
try:
boy.move_on()
except RecursionError:
pass
