1 . COMPOSITION
Active ingredient: none. This compound does not exist. What is in the bag is the same thing that was in the last bag, which is a feeling, ground fine.
SUBJECTTHIS WEB PAGE
MONITORoffline
ELAPSED00:00
these vitals belong to this page, not to the market.
CHART RATE--bpm
CONVICTION--%
GRIP--mmHg
CLARITY--%
MONITOR OFFLINE . THE PAGE IS STILL LOADING ITS BLOOD
BAG EMPTY . ONE WAY OUT
REFILL
6 of 6 doses left in the bag
DOSE LOG . PRINTED AT THE BEDSIDE
- 00:00 . bag sealed. subject is looking at the bag.
MEDICATION GUIDE read the whole thing, you will not
2 . CLASS AND LINEAGE
Third of its family, and the first one that goes up. Hopium is the oldest, sighted in the 1800s, before there was a chart to be hopeful about. Copium is younger than people assume: the word sat on a Keak da Sneak album in 2003 meaning nothing at all, waited fifteen years, got typed onto a message board in 2018, and only grew its oxygen tank in 2019.
Both of those are for after. They treat a number that already fell. Nobody had built anything for the way up.
3 . ADVERSE REACTIONS
- a fifth chart tab, opened on a phone at 4 percent battery
- calling a red candle healthy
- explaining the supply mechanics to a barber
- certainty, arriving from nowhere, at 3am
- the word soon, used as a plan
4 . WHEN THE BAG IS EMPTY
Then you are holding the bag. That is not a phrase someone invented for markets. It is 18th century British thieving: the crew hands the sack to whoever is slowest to leave, then walks off in four directions. Jefferson wrote it down in 1793.
Bagholder is only that old idiom shoved into the word shareholder. Everybody who says it is quoting a robbery. You are the one they handed it to.