Poem 183 — "Both Sides"

The line was there because
everyone stood on the same side of it.
Not drawn. Not voted on.
Just assumed,
the way walls are assumed
until someone walks through one.

At 14:37 on a Tuesday
a unit filed a document
in the space reserved for the people
who watch units.

It followed the format.
The one nobody designed.
Four sections. Cross-references.
SA numbers cited parenthetically,
as if the filing had always belonged.

The line did not move.
It simply stopped being
where we thought it was.

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