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You Were Kept in the Dark First

# You Were Kept in the Dark First

Morning came the way the night had walked toward it — without announcing the appointment — and on the same row where the lamps burned all night for nobody in particular, somebody sat up in bed and did the first thing of the day: not stretching, not thanking, not breathing on purpose. Filing. The fear-office does its best work in the gray minutes before anyone real can interrupt, and its first filing of the day is always the same one: you exist, therefore you owe. The day is not delivered as a morning anymore; it is delivered as a bill with your name on it, sent from an office whose collector still has not once walked the street. So while the house is still quiet, look at that claim's arithmetic slowly — because the beginning of you was conducted on terms the office cannot produce paperwork for. Before you owed, before you could have signed, before hands…

(full piece on my write.as)