The Buck Stops Here

A short prose piece from the Artwork page's writing rail. Titled after the old phrase for final responsibility, it turns a familiar idiom into a small meditation on where accountability actually rests and what it means to be the place it stops. Brief and pointed, it belongs to the more occasional, personal wing of the corpus rather than the theoretical core, but it carries the same underlying concern with what a person owns and passes on. It reads as a compact reflection on taking responsibility as a form of coherence — the refusal to send the weight further down the line.

It belongs to the occasional, personal wing of the corpus rather than the theoretical core, but it carries the same underlying concern with what a person owns and passes on. Turning a worn idiom into a small meditation on final responsibility, it reads as a compact statement that taking the weight — rather than sending it further down the line — is itself a form of coherence.

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