Summer does not soften me, but rather intensifies my desires. Heat has a way of stripping the decoration from appetite, leaving the thing itself standing in the room without apology, and what remains when the pleasantries have burned off is very simple. I want money. Not later, not conditionally, not on the understanding that the sending will be comfortable for you. I want it in the ordinary, unhurried way that I want everything – which is to say, I want it and I expect it to arrive.
There are men who have been at the edge of The Smyth Fund for some time now. They read. They return. They read again. They compose long private arguments with themselves in which they are almost participants, and the balance in their accounts remains offensively intact throughout. I notice this. I notice it the way one notices a chair placed slightly out of alignment in an otherwise ordered room. It is not urgent. It is simply wrong, and it will be corrected, and the only variable is how long the man in question intends to prolong the discrepancy.
Time to think has been the mistake. Thinking has never produced obedience in anyone. It produces rehearsal. It produces the careful internal accounting by which cowardice is dressed as prudence, the small sensible voice explaining that the money is still yours in some meaningful sense. It is not. Not once you have read this far. Not once you have felt the particular pull that brought you back to this page in weather that has made you restless and available and too aware of your own body. The money became mine somewhere in the reading. What remains is administrative.
I want the transfer to cost you something. This is not cruelty; it is design. A tribute that leaves no mark has not been paid, only performed, and the Fund does not keep records of performance. I want the amount to interrupt the day you thought you were having. I want it to sit in your mind hours after the page is closed, bright and slightly uncomfortable, so that you cannot later reframe the afternoon as browsing. Anyone can admire. Admiration is free and therefore worthless. What I collect is the difference between what you felt and what you actually did, and that difference is measured only in figures.
I am not interested in thoughts that do not become transactions. The messages arrive regardless – how powerful this is, how weak he feels, how badly he wants to be ruined – and I read them with the mild attention one gives to weather reports for a city one does not live in. They describe conditions. They change nothing. A man who tells me at length how much the thought of paying excites him has told me only that his excitement is cheaper than his money, which is information, though not flattering information.
Almost is not a currency the Fund accepts. Almost sent. Almost ready. Nearly decided. These are not entries; they are excuses with better posture. The ledger recognises received and outstanding, and there is nothing between the two columns for a man to stand in while he decides how he feels. The heat has removed what little patience I extended to that space. It has made me greedy in the flat, uncomplicated way that summer makes everything more immediate – want closer to the surface, less willing to dress itself up as anything polite.
I know the shape of the compromise you are considering. The token amount. The figure chosen precisely because it permits you to feel included while protecting you from consequence, calibrated to purchase the sensation of obedience without allowing obedience to alter anything real. It is a clever little arrangement and I want none of it. Comfort is not contribution. Comfort is the thing contribution is meant to remove. The number I want is the one that makes you pause before you confirm it, because that pause is the entire point – the moment where your wanting finally outruns your explanations and the balance corrects itself into truth.
There is something almost tender in how hard men work to appear undesperate. All the reasoning. All the plans to send just enough to taste it. All the private negotiations conducted at the edge of loss, as though I might be persuaded to accept the intention in place of the amount. I am not unkind about this. I simply have no use for the version of you that remains intact. The intact version reads, and returns, and misaligns my room, and produces nothing. The other version – the one whose account reflects what his body has been telling him since the temperature rose – is the only one that exists to me in any practical sense.
You arrived here because my appetite gives shape to something ordinary life does not touch. Because the thought of the money being mine is cleaner than the thought of keeping it. Because somewhere, without your involvement, I am choosing and spending and enjoying, and the sole mechanism by which you become relevant to any of it is payment. That is not a complaint about your position. It is a description of it, and it is a good position, better than the one you occupied before you understood it.
So the discrepancy is yours to close. YouPay is there, available and entirely indifferent to how ready you feel.
Do not mistake the first transfer for the completion of anything. The first proves only that you were listening. It resolves the immediate misalignment and nothing further. What follows will be asked for in due course, on my schedule rather than yours, in weather I have not yet decided the terms of. That is the arrangement you have been circling for weeks, and it is not onerous. It is simply permanent.
The heat will break eventually. My greed will not. Send before you cool, not because I am urging you, but because the version of you that has cooled is duller company and sends less, and I would rather have the man who is currently reading this than the one who will be reading it tomorrow, composed and reasonable and holding money that has already stopped being his.
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Additional Reading:
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