Jolly Fund
I was about to graduate.
About to start a job building an app.
One of my professors asked,
“Gonna spend your life making buttons?”
Now that I’m free from the button factory,
What should I do in this world?
What am I interested in?
What am I good at?
What can I do to help?
Looking through old notebooks.
Reading things I wrote while drunk.
Essays about how money is silly.
Always in cursive for fun.
I wrote very confidently,
All people should get the basics.
Just give everybody money.
We should all be able to afford life.
Too much imbalance in this world.
We talk about universal basic income,
But people just argue about it.
Can we do something about it?
Should we?
One of the many problems,
Where’s the money?
Some people say taxes,
But that’s a steep hill.
What if we just donate it?
Tax-deductible donations.
Split amongst anyone who signs up.
Free money.
Provided by those who care.
If we’re generous, we benefit.
Can we just do that?
Is that legal?
Can we start a Jolly Fund?