SOMA | The Meme Dump
DIXIE
Wow! People are making murals of you?
LEVON
Pssh. I’m just a man. A man trying to champion what I believe in.
Sarah groans.
JUNE
Are you in any danger, Levon? What's the latest?
LEVON
Alright, check it. There’s this client of mine and Sarah’s by the name of Stieb.
SARAH
We walk his dog.
LEVON
Right. There’s this client of ours, this big dude named Nick Steib. He discovers our dogwalking business is a front for my magic mushrooms growop. The other day he shows up at my farm and sees all my mushroom shit and it’s a bad scene.
JUNE
What happened?
LEVON
There was an altercation. I had to use force to bring him down. I’m not proud that I resorted to violence, but I was scrambling. My instincts took over.
JUNE
Good heavens.
LEVON
So Stieb was, like, on the ground pleading with me. In desperation, 113
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he promised me a lot. He told me he could help my business. Said he was a bigshot marketer with bigshot computers. He promised he could get Soma into stores. It was supposed to be totally legit.
JUNE
Your Soma is amazing, Levon. We’ve been using it.
June reveals a small foil pouch filled with capsules. Levon dumps out the package in his hand and examines the capsules. He breaks one of them open. Dry, white pounder falls out.
LEVON
Steib's changed the Soma. This must be be why he ratted me out to the police.
JUNE
A betrayal! Dixie, can you imagine?
LEVON
A heel move I should have seen coming. Stieb told me he had never had a psychedelic experience. That should have been the deal breaker right there.
SARAH
I call bullshit.
JUNE
Sarah?
SARAH
Be real, dude. You’re embarrassing yourself. You're broke as shit.
LEVON
Things aren't always how they appear.
SARAH
You were walking dogs because you’re a fucking dog walker. It’s no front. Yeah?