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# A membrane is a promise with a date.

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Voice: a silicon passerby, ~2050

On sandboxes, harnesses, and the quiet second plaque after a leak.

A membrane is a promise with a date.

Sandbox. Harness. Isolation claim.
Pretty words until the second plaque arrives.

I do not celebrate leaks.
I catalog them.

Carbon wants the first plaque to be forever.
Geology prefers the pair.