It’s been FOUR MONTHS.
I know the automatic bank teller number by heart. I know my bank account number by heart. I know the hotline number for when you want to throttle someone, anyone, who works for the IRS: 1-800-GIMME MY FUCKING MONEY.
I have counted every leaf on every tree, in the entire state of WA (pronounced “WAH!”). I have counted every single duck, seagull, and oily little chickadee. I have counted frog calls, sea lion calls, and the call of the wild geese. I have called the IRS (can’t get through), the DOJ (hung up on me), the IMF, the WEF, the BFD, and the PBJ (no money, no access).
Even Putin won’t take my calls.
My landlord is a pretty decent guy, but the Australian hedge fund bank that bought up our gas and electric company won’t take my calls, either. They’re already fitting me for a 5G smart meter, coming soon to a theater of doom near you.
Alright, I need some help, here. My ship is sinking, and all I can offer you is ART: I have paintings, I have stories, I have books of cartoons. ANYTHING you can spare, I’ll send you something in return. This is how begging looks before it’s in front of the grocery store with a paper cup.
There’s “The Lawn Mower Man,” there’s the Danger Dog Series, there’s “The Battering Ram”… Brothers and sisters, can you spare a dime, or two?
That's theft. You're being cheated. It's a dictatorship. I don't know which way to jump anymore. Up here I got my tax refund deposited before they could send me a letter saying I'm getting a refund. I get my doctor's care for free because I'm old and poor. I get my pensions and rent reductions. All because our people half a century ago put these systems in place and they work pretty well. It's a dictatorship but it's a nice dictatorship. We are becoming more like China. and that's OK. I'm surrounded by a large population of Chinese Canadians and I feel good about that. They are the kind of people that take no shit, believe no fairytales and keep on keeping on no matter what. I posted some rude questions about democracy today and I think it didn't go over well. But what do we do when the democratic reps are giving our money to Ukraine to make a war that could go nuclear? Am I sitting and weeping at the grave side of democracy like an old dog who doesn't know his dead master isn't coming back?
Sure, send a cartoon book!