GOVERNMENTAL FORMS AND REALITY AS WE KNOW IT

With all the fresh-from-dreams bravado and apparent clarity of cranium that come with morning tea and Spring sunshine, this morning I dove headfirst and unprotected into the US Social Security fill-out jamboree I received from the Osaka Consulate, e. g., "QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT EMPLOYMENT OR SELF-EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES," "STATEMENT OF CLAIMANT OR OTHER PERSON" and so forth...

There in the steadily darkening depths of bureaucratic ambilocution I came across one syntactic black hole after another, like the absence of ancient ruins of organized thought, that drew me on and on...

I know it doesn't pay to gaze intently upon certain objects, like the sun and governmental forms, but one can't help try to make sense of things...

Searching fruitlessly for some specific answers at the online SSA website, I came across this ominous statement (that would be more ominous if I had been working in the US): "I worked without authorization from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). What proof of my earnings do I need to give Social Security?"

So I decide to put it all off till I'm a bit more governmentally minded, whenever that might be, and go instead to obtain some mercy at the Daruma Festival at Ryotanji temple across the Lake. It's a beautiful day, and I have a lot of genuine existence forms I have to fill out.