When the Wait Exceeds

The kiosk asks again what the passport already carried. Thumb. Face. Place of entry. Something stays unfinished and sends you back along the same tiles.

Friday the board met. They will stand a second checkpoint with the Foreign Police. They already keep a heat map of the hours that thicken at arrivals. They will shift the corridors.

When the wait exceeds what they named, water arrives without being asked for. Families get a hand. The unfinished name stays on the floor until something closes it.