indexed

Or the laundry cycle.

Hot Wheels?

For some reason I'm reminded of Chumbawamba...

I get knocked down/But I get up again/You're never gonna keep me down

Aie, profound.

Swap "gets collected" with "falls down", and it becomes tawdry. ;-)

This one reminds me very much of a conversation I had with a guy years ago while we were both on acid, dissecting that cycle of breaking down / building up of all things in life, from music to religious belief, to decaying trees, to relationships, to rainwater, to cars, to sports, to peanut butter and jelly. Okay, maybe we got a bit esoteric on that last one.

A collorary:

Stephenson's Razor: supply & demand is a linear construct. Nature does not operate by linear constructs.