Our former temporary boss got through surgery okay, his wife
told me via email,
I resisted the urge to have her call our poet to let her
know the good news, since our poet would no doubt be worried as well, though I
don’t know exactly what the relationship is, and perhaps such a thing might be
better left in the hand of D, our hometown reporter, since he seems as attracted
to our poet as our former temporary boss is.
I think both of them managed to avoid my fatal flaw, realizing
they will never have exclusive rights to our poet and will settle for some fun
early on, and then life in the back seat watching someone else drive.
But I also suspect those attached to her will go along with
whatever she wants, just to keep in good graces, even if they suspect she might
be manipulating them.
Some questions still remain such as the role James, the
political operative, plays in his relationship with us, and the third ticket,
and A, who will become the PR person for the third ticket, even though she is
secretly working for R’s campaign.
And what is the relationship between all of these people in
regard to GA, the Hometown blogger, who has been exposing them all. James hates
GA with a passion.
It may be only coincidence that our poet began to seduce our
former temporary boss at about the time when all of this started to heat up
last year – since he sent then hometown writer to go after GA.
As with all puzzles, some pieces seem to fit when after looking
at them closely you realize they don’t.
I don’t think her seduction of our former temporary boss has
anything to do with Hometown politics, though I do believe her attempt to seduce
the Hometown democratic chairman does.
And I do believe she would like to jump the sinking ship she’s
on for one sailing in Hometown. Even if the virgin mayor. Even as the private secretary,
she really has no place to go. Joey D – with whom she is also likely involved –
has been looking to get her work elsewhere, including in the town I cover where
he is rumored to be taking on the role of campaign manager for the challenging
candidate. I’m told he’s asked the possible future mayor to find her a job.
In some ways, she leaped from one sinking ship to another,
from our office to the virgin mayor, and found out too late how little a future
there is, though in truth A – who appears to be willing to do anything, sleep
with anyone, to get the job done, has more sway in the Hometown election than
our poet does.
Our poet seems to have a conscience, most of the other plays
lack. This is why she sometimes has trouble sleeping at night. It is one thing
to trickle up (her targets get something in return) and quite another to simply
sell your soul to the devil the way A has.
Our poet – if I read the tea leaves right – will do anything
to advance herself but does her best not to leave a trail of tattered human
remains behind. She even spoke kindly of her former chef, and he was stalking
her.
In a game of power, people pretend to be things they are not
in fact, where as if anything, despite her borrowed lives living in somebody else’s
shell, she seems to be the most honest, even when she’s not, and lives by her
own code of ethics, even when she no longer believes in fair and unfair, good
or bad. There are things she will not do,
and for that, she deserves some credit.
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