The Small Man pulled me aside last night at a ribbon cutting
in a town where he serves as mayor.
“Your friend is hanging around with some very bad people,”
he said, meaning the poet. This included some guy named Rolando, who had somehow
wormed his way into the Virgin Mayor’s inner circle and has raised some concern
among political people in and outside the Virgin Mayor’s town.
‘She’s going to get herself into deep trouble,” the Small
Man told me. “This guy is a very, very bad guy.”
Rolando C is a big time crook, who was busted for stealing
$4 million from a bank and only got a six month jail sentence, he supposedly is
scheduled to start in January.
Most believe his light sentence came as a result of his cooperating
with the feds. But he’s a long-time major contributor to some of the most powerful
political figures in the county and beyond, so it is possible he bought his way
out to avoid serious jail time.
Most of those I’ve talked to since say people are keeping
their distance from him, with the exception of our poet, who according to the Small
Man and others, is drawn to this creep like a moth to a flame, one more sad
example of how gullible she might be, drawn constantly to losers who appear
stronger on the surface than they really are.
One of my sources believes that Rolando will go to jail, and
then start turning in people he is close with, a deep sting that fools none of
the wise, since – as with the Small Man – they smell the trap already.
With only a few weeks left until Rolando goes off to jail,
you have to wonder what our poet friend gets out of it – beyond a few more
weeks of living the high life, or perhaps an avenue by which she can meet other
powerful men who have not yet been compromised, taking off with one of them
once Rolando goes off to jail.
What the Small Man expects me to do about it, I can’t say.
He assumes that she and I are close, when in fact the event at the school
renaming a few weeks ago shows she still hates me as much as ever.
She, meanwhile, is in the midst of reinventing herself,
perhaps realizing that she has been exposed in a way she’s never been exposed
before.
It will be curious to see what transpires next, when she
finally decides she needs to move on, with or without Rolando.
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