America, You Played Yourself

“Error literally doesn’t exist in the first person present tense: the sentence ‘I am wrong’ describes a logical impossibility. As soon as we know that we are wrong, we aren’t wrong anymore, since to recognize a belief as false is to stop believing it.” – Kathryn Schulz

You wake up broke and alone and uninsured

and you can’t help but wonder, how did I get here?

How you’d get here, shit and double shit, boy,

you played yourself.

Ain’t nobody else’s fault.

Now look at what you’ve done.

You played yourself.

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