Verse 1

The contempt in our glares felt new and bracing, but after some emotional bloodletting, we became Fast Friends. Nothing is ever that serious or superficial~ Choice is such a faux pas… ew! Epidermal plush vibe carries peristaltically to microvilli touch. Heart health is accomplice to atrial hate. Unlike magnetism is 4EVA. Surfaces and scenes can sour and storm quickly, like an open avocado on a kitchen countertop. Rei Terada avers that phenotypical interpellations can easily be substituted to a suggestive meta level of “stances.” Something Good is sweetened by Something Bad, even seeks it out as requirement, like ants crawling over wet potpourri.

The flutter of a French cuff too long for its wrist, passports forgotten on a plane, free shots, angel numbers on a license plate. I learned the thrill and sting of convictions unplanned, but all of us together felt like driving one too many flower stems through the curt lips of a wine bottle.

The beads on our friendship bracelets are too small to photograph well, and the nostalgia of stationery shops stuck in the past don’t have enough therapeutic give, no longer distract and compensate. When did youth stop being enough?? That kind of hubris no longer defrays the censure and criticism of a bildungsroman. Parlaying Liliana Doganova in her study of the political technology of financial discounting: “who [among us] can afford to look to the future?” to decide or deride the value of things, time, and people… in other words, to be an Investor.

Embedded Story cosplaying as Chorus

Love is limerent for Money. On-again off-again queerbaiting breeders fickly opening their ‘partnership’ to Fame, Sex, & Power…i.e. the REAL baddies, an unholy trinity who would likely counsel that Thigh gap personified is an admirable ambition. petalled flip phone fell through last night!!!^.^  Horizontal to vertical – Another kind of order. Like a selfie mirror so high up, only model girlies can reach it~ Matte cars in the shade of Slam-The-Door-SHUT Slate. BMI calculator. Gatekeep. Close ranks. Phalanx. Protect Your Peace. Learn from Estella, the OG frenemy, & get creative with hypergamy! You are BANISHED to the back of the line! Thanks for being a fan… but this is a DOLLS-ONLY section. Beauty by Dysphoria. For a limited time only. Rejection therapy can’t buy your serenity.

Back to basics: LIVE. Feel the rain on your skin~ Am I losing eyelashes in the shower?? According to Internet remedies, I gotta drink spinach water, eat edamame, and drive an orange Bugatti. Oh, and remember to pump my stomach for capsule shells… Staticky 1996 magazine promotional video: Please tell me what to do with my Life!?! Peel away the perfection of skin and see skein.

AI can’t match your cupidity. The millennial comeback to your deepfakes? “I Am Me” – the sophomore album by Ashlee Simpson. Poison is commonly administered as its own antidote.

The closest you’ll get to befriending Purity is your next Labubu, but The Dolls know that haunted Furbys will never leave you!!! Resilient like plastic orchids.

Toxic Positivity Outro (Algorithmically sourced)

level up in private ~ grow in solitude ~ i lost a man but i won my peace ~ who checked on you today? exactly. so just keep focusing on yourself ~ don’t get mad. don’t get even. do better. much better ~ i burn bridges as needed. i’m no longer a people pleaser ~ be valuable, not available ~ never let a person who didn’t see your value make you forget your worth ~ people talk about you because they lost the privilege to talk to you ~ just because i don’t require much doesn’t mean i deserve the bare minimum ~ the people who want to stay in your life always find a way ~ disrespect can permanently shut doors that apologies can never reopen ~ stop overplaying your role. deal with people how they deal with u : hardly, barely, accordingly ~ for my peace: i delete, i block, i disown, i leave, i ignore ~ i don’t believe in competition because A. you can’t be me, and B. i don’t wanna be you ~

Siri play “Graduation (Friends Forever)” by Vitamin C…

\Text by Wong Binghao (Bing)

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