Ochre Idyls

Poems, Haiku/Tanka, Short Fictions

You been downtown lately?

No, why?

They're bringing back soup lines.

Soup lines?

Like from the depression era.

Oh.

Yeah, it's so bad.

You think this is as bad as then?

Getting there, not one for the record books yet, though.

Why's it so much worse in the cities?

Politics.

  • Fiction
  • 50 words
  • < 1 min
  • July 04, 2025