The queue outside the questura yesterday reminded me of the ration line in Dimapur during the ’90s — everyone patient because there is no other road. I sat on the steps with my mother’s oxygen concentrator bag, watching a young man from Senegal explain his papers to the guard, and thought: this system works only when clerks are paid enough to care. Let us not pretend efficiency is the problem — it is that we have made waiting a tax on the poor.
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