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On Ponzi Mechanics
Grandfather's lottery ticket
tucked behind the casino ashtray,
folded like a prayer
between cigarette burns and forgetting—
that same hope now lives
in smart contracts,
dressed in mathematics
but still whispering
the ancient lie.
In dusty Las Vegas, he knew
the numbers by heart:
3-16-20, the date
the world stopped spinning,
the age he left everything behind,
the dollars from his last
construction paycheck.
Always believing
someone else's fortune
would finally become his own.
The list pinned to his mirror—
things to do when the numbers hit:
pool at the Flamingo,
call girls with kind eyes,
a house where the air
conditioning never breaks,
where life tastes like
something other than desert wind
and broken promises.*
Now I watch them
stake their tokens
like he staked his weeks
on six numbers drawn
from a plastic barrel.
The ritual unchanged:
money in, hope up,
waiting for the universe
to rearrange itself
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