Goodnight, Government

A windowsill view of a small North Carolina town at dusk: a sleeping orange cat, a steaming cup of tea on stacked books, a school, fire station, church, and mountains under a full moon.

A bedtime story for voters

Written by a guy who can't win
Illustrated by a robot who can't vote

A small North Carolina town at dusk: a brick school, yellow school bus, red fire truck in the station, a white church steeple, autumn trees, and mountains under a crescent moon.

In the great state of North Carolina

There was a school

And a red fire truck

And a picture of ...

1

A framed painting on a green wall: a winged pig flying over a golden crescent moon against a starry night sky.

A pig flying over the moon

2

A warm library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a librarian at a desk, and a child sitting cross-legged on the floor reading a book under glowing pendant lamps.

A library full of books

3

A split scene: on the left, a nurse standing in the warm doorway of a small rural clinic at dusk; on the right, a teacher grading papers at her desk by lamplight, empty desks around her.

And a nurse at the clinic down the road

And a teacher who stayed late

4

A dimming library room with half-empty shelves, a closed sign on the door, two worn armchairs, and a single lamp still lit.

Goodnight, library

That was open on Saturdays

5

A teacher in a store aisle, checking a receipt while holding a basket full of school supplies she bought with her own money. Cool blue fluorescent lighting.

Goodnight, teacher

Who bought her own supplies

6

A small rural clinic at night, its blue door chained shut with a padlock, a medical cross sign above, a single streetlight, and an empty parking lot.

Goodnight, nurse

At the clinic that closed

7

The state capitol building at night under a full moon, every window dark except one with a faint glow.

Goodnight, budget

That nobody passed

8

A dark two-lane rural highway at night, a small house with one lit window on the left, and a faint hospital glow far in the distance on the horizon.

Goodnight, ER

That was twenty minutes away

9

A cold blue corporate landscape: a tollbooth, a glass office building, branded buses, and a sterile institutional building replacing the warm town.

Good morning, tollbooth.

Good morning, tuition.

Good morning, subscription fee.

Good morning, shareholders.

10

A single tomato plant in a terra cotta pot on a warm cream background, small but alive.

11

Some things aren't supposed to make a profit.

Your kids' schools. Your local clinic. Your mental health services. But Raleigh's been cutting their funding, calling them broken, and handing them off to the highest bidder.

And because they drew the maps, they don't have to listen to you about it.

It's time that changed.

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