#444

Four! Four! Four!

Four. Two and two. One hundred and eleven times. Four four four.

CDXLIV?

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The oldest 25-cent piece currently in my possession was minted in 1966. Still in pretty good shape. Not a person of numismatics as a rule, especially as I actually hate money, but coins as objects possess an undeniable fascination.

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Fuck man, June is happening. This is some mangled-up reality--somewhere deep within the mechanism, timing belts are slipping and embankment pins are failing to catch, and here on this plane, I drift further and further out of time. 

Feels like March is still starting out. Each day shows me weird numbers on its clocks, which seem very disconnected from the things that are happening and the sky and the birds and the currents of the wind. Feels like last year and next year at the same time.

Shit be wibbling and wobbling on the real.

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UNIVERSAL

BASIC

INCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME

C O M E  O N  B A B Y

G  I  V  E    I  T    T  O    M  E

Also repeal property taxes and provide rent subsidies for people whose sole or combined income is less than fifty or a hundred grand a year. Come on, fuckers! Be cool! Be this cool for once in your puerile lives, and I'll pretend you were cool in high school. I'll tell people I thought you were cool back then.  

As a bonus, it will help regular people be less fucked by the rapacious and seemingly unstoppable domineering common to the salivating, absolutely unhinged pack of glitterati fistfuckers that demand the world twist itself into a flaming figure-eight and fly into the sun's asshole in order to serve their bogglingly debauched ends.

None of these people pay any fucking taxes at all, you know. They pay themselves not to pay taxes, and they make even more money--sometimes, they even ask me for more money to help them pull this trick. Weird but true! Yet it is I, I who have never had more than five thousand dollars in my bank account and who basically has always has comfortably less than a thousand, who would break the economy if I got like a grand a month to help me and a couple hundred less to pay overall. 

Though I am but a simple creature, I am confident in declaring that math bad. It's bad math.

--JL