Aiden Seo

Glass & Acrylic

created: 2025-08-10; modified: 2025-08-14

Dear Calmbait,
You promise me "if you dont hate me keep me
unblocked / we’ll be bestfriends" with your mauve nails.
You offer me a green beanie baby from your
ginormous (sorted by color) collection kept in glass jars.
You ask me, ‘are you bored yet?’ while I call you up
late at night. I ask you, ‘can I open the glass jar?’

,Ragebait Dear
,collection by sorted are babies beanie My
.cases acrylic hard in sealed and ,color not
,mauve in done nails my had never I’ve
(I because out work didn’t we and)
will You .you for looked never
.case acrylic an open never

Notes

  1. Letter #2

    Dear Ragebait,

    My beanie babies are sorted by collection,

    not color, and sealed in hard acrylic cases.

    I’ve never had my nails done in mauve,

    (and we didn’t work out because I)

    never looked for you. You will

    never open an acrylic case.

    Aiden Seo, "Acrylic Cases"

  2. invert-line: I developed a Python script to reverse strings, flipping word order in sentences and within parentheses, while preserving parentheses placement. After reversal, if the first word ends with a period (.), exclamation mark (!), comma (,), or question mark (?), that punctuation is moved to the beginning. This algorithm, reminiscent of DNA sequence alignment problems I solved at CMU’s Pre-College Computational Biology Program, was one of my first Python scripts.

  3. The line ‘are you bored yet?’ references the song Are You Bored Yet?

  4. The line ‘I call you up late at night’ references the song Softly.

Aiden Seo