Phantom Lines

Did you know that
When you draw Sharpie lines around an ant
The ant can’t cross it?
It’s so silly–
The ant trapped by invisible lines!
But then I think of stop signs
And green lights
And old people in red ties
And suddenly
it doesn’t seem
all that silly
after all.

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