There are no official observations

There’s a page in the front of my passport. THIS PAGE IS RESERVED FOR OFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS it reads. Immediately below, printed in a faux stamp style, THERE ARE NO OFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS.

Though quite the opposite of its intent, I thought that a poetic comment on the frailty of appeals to authority. There are no official observations like, only observations.

10:10am on August 22, 2022 from Melbourne, Australia.


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