style glistens on surf with the setting sun / and we act like we what we do is demonstrably normative

first – it was originally ‘a lifestyle glistens’ but i just couldn’t fit it into the song. so i took the britney spears approach and worried about how it sounded rather than what it means. i like the assonance of the repeated ess sounds.

i was trying to evince a sense the temporary nature of the things that feel permanent in our lives, our culture. the way we live feels, and literally is in some ways, governed by rules. but they are not universal. the way one behaves in, say, new york in 2025 ce is very different from the way one behaves in the fertile crescent in 2025 bce. probably.

oh and i love the word ‘demonstrably’ as it conjures a thought of both demons and monsters.

which raises the age old questions, which is better: demons or monsters?