This is no gift economy.
You live in a tyranny of equality.
The dictator--you--deals
in judgment, payment,
enforced retribution:
an eye for a lie
a tooth for a truth, damage
in exchange for pain.
(except where the pain is penance
for a debt only you can see.)
Any generosity exacts payment, with interest.
There is only being even.
Imagine a government
Where a gift is a gift and not
an obligation, where retribution
is subject to the government of grace
How would you then give?
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