#64 The Hot Manifesto
I want you to get hot this summer.
Performed this one during our “Hot & Bothered” storytelling night with Amsterdive. Join us in September! Subscribe for more. Amsterdive Amsterdive Amsterdive!
Are you getting hot this summer? I decided I’m getting hot this summer. And by hot I mean
I want you to get weirder. I want you to be a little cringe.
I saw a meme of cyclical virality about how the cringe will set you free / and you know what? they’re right / I want you to be a little too much / I want your excitement to overflow
and I want people to feel a mix of surprise and vague concern / because you’re alight with everything you love.
This summer I don’t want you to keep your cool. / The thing is, people equate vulnerability with embarrassment. / I want you to do things that feel a little bit embarrassing. / I want you to hug that embarrassment.
I want you to run towards fever pitch temperatures / and I /
want you to break in sweats because you love something so much.
Haven’t you ever loved something so much?
Remember what it feels like? To love something so much?
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I want you to get unbearably hot this summer. Sweat everything out. Cringe yourself out with how hotly you feel - I want you to embarrass yourself in front of your crush at the bar - a hottie at the terrace - in front of someone you wanted to impress
Isn’t it deliciously humiliating? / To show someone how much they affect you?
When I feel desire I feel it low in my belly / when I feel excitement it’s fluttering lightly in the center of my chest / that’s the thing! None of these things are - cool - none of these things
are moderate, room temperature, comfortable to the touch / actually / they are
overwhelming -
The heat is bursting, everywhere / bouncing off your skin / in your mouth / feel it in your teeth / can you feel it in your teeth? / Can you unclench your jaw? / can you surrender?
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I want you to discover something good and I want you to get all up in its grill - make horrible paintings - and write things that don’t make sense -
and be insufferable at the cinema
I want you to cry at the museum / and I want you to lay under the trees / the leaves are moving
Get hot this summer. Get to unbearable temperatures / feel like you might die if you don’t feel it all / because you might / die, that is, if you never feel the true size of what you feel
I love this! Yes to getting hot and feeling it all. 🔥
Loved this line: “because you’re alight with everything you love.”
I’d always rather be around people who are alight than the ones trying to play it cool.