Song Description
Transport office. Sensors, logs, timing.
Tea break hum. She keeps typing.
Kinley’s trick is a screen. Polite on the surface, built to quiet you.
Clipboard Man watches for him.
She knows that pattern.
Three years with her father after the crash taught her where pressure hides, how shame gets used and how a particular type of person plays.
This chapter sets the question.
"Can you make a mistake on purpose?"
No trigger yet.
An later track will answer.
Lyrics
I'm a little obsessive
A little intense
But only when pointed
Only when it matters
This felt like it might
So I got a job
Department of Transport
Traffic Systems Analyst
Government-grade dull
Like someone pressed copy-paste
On a thousand people
And hit send
They break for tea
I don't
They hover near the microwave
I rewrite logs
People say I overshare
Or undershare
Too honest
Or too hard or too easy to read
But that's what happens
When you won't run their presets
I never did the social dance
The soft shoe shuffle
Of let's not go too deep just yet
It's exhausting
Watching people try to protect
A version of themselves
They never even examined
So I worked
Because it's easier
To code a sensor
Than act like I didn't read
What they won't say
But then I had a question
Can you make a mistake
On purpose?
Just a little one
Can you slip something
Into the feed
And call it
A misfire?
Say a photo
On a screen
At just the right time
Not hacked
Not breached
Just
Misfiled
Human error
The most believable lie
We ever invented
There's this address
On the back of the card he dropped
409 Victoria Street Chatswood
Right outside the Concourse
2PM
Post-lunch crowd
Screens Cameras
Public signal access
I don't believe in fate
But I do believe
In tools left lying around
He's still watching me
Not daily
Not cleanly
But I catch the rhythm mid-stride
I never break pace
You'd think that for Kinley
It would be a private eye
A professional
A threat wrapped in black budget
But no
Just a man
A trusted hand
With a clipboard
Clipboard Man is
A speaker at his local church
Smiles for his community centre
Writes structural reports
Believes morality is something
You declare
Protests too much me thinks
And his boss's financials
Well
I'll never say
I'll just imply
Publicly
On a screen
At 2:01 PM
In a way
Only they will recognise
Nothing illegal
Nothing traceable
Just enough
To stir their
Order
To answer
My question
Can you make
A mistake
On
Purpose?
Yes!