QUEUE STATUS: Overflow
WINDOWS OPEN: 0
OBJECTS PRESENT: Receipts, phones, folders, hospital bands, wedding rings
NOTICE: Public assembly is not a filing method.
The queue began before sunrise.
Not at the front doors.
At the corner.
By 6:10, it wrapped past the pharmacy, crossed the bus shelter, bent around the closed bakery, and doubled back along the Revoke Office steps. People stood with receipts in their hands because nobody had brought signs.
Signs would have been easier to dismiss.
Receipts had names.
Nora watched from the alley behind the building with Tess on one side and Lio on the other. Jo was somewhere near the front with her phone turned outward and her face off-camera. Mrs. Olu sat on a folding stool by the stairs, canvas bag at her feet, her son's care transfer held
