DELULULAND
text by: sotce
Well my parents were mean. Because they had to pay bills. Now I have a ponytail, and an apartment! I eat butter. I see a "movie" with "Helen". Worldly beings say Let's do brunch all sexy. They don't like me but they like this restaurant. Sometimes the room is relatively empty. You guys will only experience wealth indirectly. My symmetrical face swims upstream. My symmetrical face turns from every face that came before it. Look at me when I'm talking. I love you so much.
He watches me sleep with headphones in. He tells me when he feels something evil. Forgive me if I trespass in your dreams. I am very worldly. I have worked my whole life for concepts. My aspirations twist and vanish.
Once a party was bright and muffled. Energy moving up and down like candy. Worldly beings tumbling into the backseat and me into the closed off part in front. Loud and happy in there and the driver is from my high school. And we look at each other all quit like believe me I would still understand you. That leather car smell tunneling thru darkness and more purses. Do I still have your purses ahead of me? Just a subtle thing, his reminding. My rainbow body is just a bit caught up. A flash of lightning in a summer cloud.
Let's assume there was a beginning. Then this purity we speak of so fondly, it would have been the beginning, it would have come in simultaneously with the beginning. If it is artificial then it comes from conditions. If it is conditional then it is impermanent. If it is impermanent then it is imperfect. If they are countable then they are not stars. I suppose there was no color until God begged for it. The first time is the hardest. I am hoping we can be together always.
Sotce is is a US-based “internet-Aristotle”. Mainly working in the realms of instagram, she creates memes and poems. Sotce aims to speak to a welcoming of a distinctly female experience. An unashamed vulnerability, alongside visual absurdity. She and her platform can be considered as much philosopher, artist, writer.
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