The Lexicon · claim #068 of 233

Hey USFG, where's my jet? — the Pepsi angle in reverse

Leonard v. Pepsico run backwards. In the famous case a man tried to claim a Harrier jet from Pepsi Points and the court said no — an obvious joke isn't a binding promise. The reverse: a citizen holds the government's real promise up to the light — life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness — and asks, deadpan, where's my jet? The absurd demand is the point: it makes the broken promise impossible to ignore without ever being a real claim. It rides on the unsent invoice — a bill numbered at the government's own value of a life plus a million, mailed to no one. Expressive, labeled, never a legal filing (the Acoustic Standing register). Kin: the Screen-Out, the invoice, a life costs more than disability affords. (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)

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