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" Soldiers were shot outside a poet’s door and a bomber plane was on its way. So he took his manuscript, folded it, and locked it into a tin chest. There was a place east of town where it could be safely buried and found by another someday. He ran out during battle, was shot multiple times in his legs, slithered his way in a swamp of gushing muscle, and alas, could not make it. So, in desperation, he opened up the holes in his stomach and inserted the tin chest where his poems lie safe and died there. One day, a medic will read about birds that chirped on emerald trees. "
― Karl Kristian Flores , The Goodbye Song
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" Organize their money on a chopping board. Sort out your worth.
$15,000 for outdated textbooks K-12.
$1,000 for a lifetime of flu vaccinations.
$8 an hour to help someone else make money.
$300 a year for food coupons.
$1,000 additional salary for any job that has a chance of expected death.
$600 co-pay on medication for an illness they cause you.
$2,000 for social security.
$15,000 for pension.
$150,000 for the average life insurance policy. $250,000 for a doctor’s fatal mistake.
$350,000 if the doctor made it in a different state.
2/5 of a soul lost in the workplace.
3/5 of a soul lost to fuck for food.
$4,000 to bury someone in the soil.
And there you have you. Easy to make. Affordable. Special. "
― Karl Kristian Flores , The Goodbye Song