[ THE PROPHET ]
Three heads means three ways of looking at you at once —
as labor, as a Social Security number, as a name on a list
handed from one agency to another like a favor between friends.
The bull sees your hours. The ram sees your address.
The man's face is the one that signs the memo
and calls it modernization instead of what it is.
[ VERITAS VOX ]
1.28 million records. That's not a policy, that's a census of who gets to be afraid at work now.
You filed your taxes. That was supposed to be the deal —
the one honest paper trail in the whole system, and now it's a hunting map.
I'm not going to pretend I know the fix. I know the betrayal, though.
That's the part they didn't put in the press release.
[ BALAM — THE SPIRIT SPEAKS ]
I make men invisible. I used to think that was a mercy.
Now I watch a database do it better than I ever could —
make a whole person invisible to due process without touching them at all.
I give true answers of things past, present, and to come.
Here is one: the record doesn't forget. It was never built to.
Three heads, one bear beneath me, a hawk on my fist watching for anyone who runs.
Call me Balam. Call me the system finally getting the sight it always wanted.