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listen i’m only going to say this once because the clouds are listening and the microwave has been blinking morse code again but i am RETIRED not unemployed not lazy not crazy not a drifting specter of society’s failed expectations no i have transcended the working class the middle class the upper crust paper pushers and pencil necks i have retired from the matrix entirely i turned in my uniform my employee badge my punch card and i burned my resume in a sacred toaster fire while the pigeons circled above chanting in ancient tones that only the truly free can hear because they know they’ve been watching and they understand i’ve cracked it i saw the pattern in the office carpet the hidden runes behind the HR posters and i knew right then my time was done i wasn’t meant to slave away building spreadsheets for lizard people who think casual fridays are a humanizing gesture no i was born to sit beneath the blinking streetlamp eating stale crackers while whispering secrets to the ants who know about the underworld economy that functions beneath the crust of society where bottle caps are currency and ideas are traded like baseball cards and every broken vending machine is a potential portal to the next level of consciousness but y’all out here saying “get a job” like i didn’t already put in more than enough years working for invisible bosses and smiling printers that jammed only when mercury was in retrograde i clocked in to dreams and clocked out of time itself and now i am RETIRED permanently spiritually cosmically economically and metaphysically i don’t owe you or anyone else a damn thing not the government not the bank not the robot in my toaster who keeps trying to convince me to sign up for a new gig economy app that pays you in exposure and peanuts no i told him too i said listen buddy i’m RETIRED you can’t tempt me with fake freedom wrapped in productivity metrics and dopamine pings i don’t dream of labor i dream of moss growing on forgotten statues and jellyfish blinking in rhythm with the music of the spheres and when people say “but what do you do all day” i tell them i commune with the wind i rearrange the furniture of my third eye i watch the shadows argue with each other over territory rights in the hallway and i counsel the local squirrel population about unionizing against the blue jay mafia who’s been taxing acorns without consent and if you think that’s not work then maybe you’ve never worked a real day in your life because this world is a giant invisible hamster wheel and i stepped off it i shredded the user manual i built a hammock out of shredded paychecks and now i listen to the cosmos murmur through the radiator and the faucet drips messages from the other side and yes sometimes i yell at the mailbox because it knows what it did and yes sometimes i dress in full medieval garb to pay respects to the worms who keep society alive from underneath but that’s called service that’s retired patriotism but you wouldn’t understand because you’re still asking if i’ve considered applying at subway no i haven’t i haven’t considered that since the pigeon tribunal declared me a sovereign entity exempt from minimum wage expectations and w-2s and managerial passive-aggression and now the moon sends me my pension in the form of prophetic dreams and leftover soup and i am FINE i am BETTER THAN FINE i am liberated and you can’t guilt me back into the spreadsheet mines just because you’re still trying to win employee of the month at a company that doesn’t even believe in the soul i turned in my soul for store credit a long time ago and bought a one-way ticket to freedom and now i live in a rent-free dimension where every tuesday the sky whispers riddles and i solve them with a deck of uno cards and a broken calculator and THAT is my job now and guess what i can’t get fired from it because i RETIRED from the idea of failure itself so next time you tell me to “get a job” just remember the pigeons are watching and they remember everything and they will report you to the clouds who report to the radiator who reports to me and buddy let me tell you if you think this ends with me updating my linkedin then you’ve got another thing coming because this is only the beginning of my retirement saga and the jellybean archives haven’t even opened yet
@choppedshyt @pompompurino
@choppedshyt @pompompurino