Wednesday, July 10, 2024

we are all sinners on this bus Jan 2014

  

What isn't clear in all her poetic posting recently is exactly what transpired and who betrayed her and just who is the Good Samaritan that picked her up off the floor.

There are rumors, of course, none of which can be relied on to be accurate, some of which revolve around the perpetual issue of money

While she did get a $20,000 annual increase in her salary last May -- less than 6 months after being hired on as the mayor's confidential assistant -- the rumor claims she was due for a second increase, the amount of which varies on who you talk to

The rumor claims she didn't receive it and this same rumor says someone else in her office did, something she uncovered when opening the mayor's mail one day

At which point, all hell broke loose since this other person was someone she worked fairly closely within the office and may have trickled up in the municipal power grid of head of her.

I'm not certain how much to believe in this rumor since she is well connected in City Hall on several levels:  RR became parking authority director; Joey d is a second most powerful person in the city; and the public safety director is as much in love with her as our former temporary boss

if the rumor is accurate then she must have truly felt betrayed especially if the person who allegedly got the raise instead of her was tapping the same people she was. The rumor in fact goes on to claim she got in trouble for opening the mayor's private correspondence which is somewhat ridiculous since she is after all the confidential aide to the mayor.

Still in fighting is a problem in small institutions and is not unheard of especially with the rogues gallery that surrounds the Virgin mayor, all of whom look to get their piece of the patronage pie and if her competition slept with the right people, it is reasonable to assume that woman got the raise our poet soon the city would give her especially when she assumed she had put together the right coalition of power people

Figuring out this bit of information might have knocked her to the floor painting this as a political issue rather than a romantic one as previous poems suggest.

who is the Good Samaritan who picked her up and dusted her off and gave her a glimmer of hope is a mystery as well, most likely Joey d though that's only a guess based on reports that he's trying to find her a job down in the peninsula City if he manages to get a new mayor elected there.

She writes about redemption implying significant change and the misinterpretation -- at least in my mind --  she needs to be forgiven for some real or imagined in fraction, part of a Peyton place of interrelationships which has her seeing herself as immoral when she is not -- or at least no more immoral than the rest of us or in particular those who surround her now

This bringing us back who should be casting the first stone. Not only should she not cast the stone at herself but neither should the rest of us or as to modify and old comedy record: “we are all sinners on this bus.”


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