The Two Standards

WHO THEY WERE

44 WHO THEY WERE First Point. inhaling the disseminators of the informations were the informations were the Africans the gifted the beleaguered politicians were the tyrants punks bulimics Swiss the monitors of hallways were the working class the Ivy Leaguers ira the border guards the refugees vacationers the horny the insane the fit the wishy-washy pet owners the destitute the loud the deaf the carriers of cards the Mennonites the homeless the contractors were the workforce were the shut-ins the unfortunate the Poles the South Sea Islanders the victims of abuse teachers of survey courses were the babies the astonished drivers of stick shifts farmers were the wounded flexible the inappropriate the not too bright the ill-disposed the suicide bombers party animals the handlers of snakes the Japanese glaucomic the survivors of abuse of cancer gunshot wounds the tax attorneys prisoners the Sisters of Mercy gay the unattended pampered elderly the blackjack dealers were some mothers fathers blind the diggers of holes computer programmers the innovators window cleaners pilots sad the very sad the flight attendants landlords arch-conservatives the bird-watchers the perps the clowns the paraplegics outdoorsy types abandoned the commuters priests makers of killings on the market Mexican Slovenian the moderates the sex workers our boys actors in movies the obese the saintly travelers surveyors physicists the black the white the needy anarchists the far outnumbered athletes tweakers motorcycle cops the urban poor the native populations ...