THE PROPHET ]
He understands the voices of birds and the barking of dogs,
every small language of alarm — except, it turns out, the one
you speak on hold with an insurance company for forty minutes
before a hold-music voice tells you your premium doubled.
A good disputer, they call him. The best argument in America right now
is the one your own government is having with your ability to afford a doctor.
[ VERITAS VOX ]
One hundred fourteen percent isn't a market correction. It's a cliff with a subsidy
standing at the edge, and somebody just took the railing away and called it fiscal responsibility.
Both parties built this. One built the ledge, the other built the dependency on standing near it,
and neither one of them is the one who falls.
[ CAIM — THE SPIRIT SPEAKS ]
I carry a sharp sword and I have never once had to use it —
the paperwork does the cutting for me.
I am a good disputer. I win every argument about who deserves care
by simply making the argument too expensive to keep having.
I understand the lowing of cattle, the barking of dogs, the small panic
of every creature that senses the fence moving closer.
Call me Caim. I am the voice on the other end of the call that never resolves anything —
just keeps you disputing, and disputing, until you give up and go without.