A downloadable manifesto

"the pursuit of erotic self-destruction. if you claim not to understand it, then you're writing a story for children".
- me

i still dream of orgonon

i'm an exercise in casual mythmaking

i'm high-concept and low-fidelity

i have a fear of falling

i have been to places you could only dream of

i was cursed by a witch

i have a community but it's not Community

i am not Sustainable

i want to be allowed to Love

i'm a new baby

i wanted to write a full essay for all of these things

i forgive her

i'm going to be big enough to hold the world

i'll draw an infinity on my breast

i am a warm glow

i'll lose my voice in the vacuum of space

i'll sing a song for the planets

i've got too much love stored in me

i've got a pain you'll never know

i'm one of many

i think anything could grow here

i'm not a zero sum game

i don't believe in common sense

i was only ever human by technicality

i'm only half

i'm gooby

I am a kaleidoscope

An endless symmetry

I am a refraction of a central point that never existed

I spiral outwards from the core 

Carrying the overwhelming comfort of a nose that is a nose

In unexistence I see God

Inside myself I see divinity

I am a kaleidoscope

My skin displays patterns within patterns

My mind belays the function containing itself

My chest explodes outwards like a firework

I look out to the trees for evidence of stray sparks

No embers in the daytime

I am a zoetrope

Smooth in motion

Atomic and connected

A parlor trick

My neighbours fuck me at speed

Children don't know what they're watching

I'd explain but I need a moment

I am a kaleidoscope

Roll me

Watch the colours churn

i will update my manifesto in my own time

Published 14 days ago
StatusReleased
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AuthorSiobhan Dent
ContentNo generative AI was used

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an epitaph of great beauty and contradiction. thank you

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Woah, this feels psychedelic. I am also deeply comforted that my nose is a nose, but my eyes are burning in this kaleidoscope world. I roll with this, this layered thought. I hope you will update as you go. Nice lucky last 333rd submission

thank you <33! i made another manifesto that i think is a bit more special but it was too late to submit, check it out :)

Sure, thanks for letting me know. If you needed, you can replace this entire page with that manifesto, it's an option? Dirtlove Manifesto, it's interesting. If someone reads this, consider checking it out.