LOBBYING
LOBBYING
or the lobby is outside somewhere before
Larry the President National Writers Union (UAW) Marivir beautiful Filipino Mentor and me woman with a hat like a duck we went to Legislative Office Buildings LOB vast as the famous shopping mall somewhere in Minnesota joined hordes of people making requests to raise the age for people to go to prison to change the prisons altogether to change the laws for college tuition to open up jobs for minority women we asked policy people in the assembly in the senate they were old they were young they were usually eager to listen except for one Republican assemblyman who wanted to tell us about the fish he caught and why that was important he had stuffed fish on his wall and a picture of himself with Dennis Miller one woman told us that her boss was going to be 28 tomorrow New York’s youngest in the assembly her boss wanted a cake and balloons it’s legal to spend fifteen dollars on a cake and balloons two days visiting people we asked them for money so we could give free writing classes so that people could tell their stories every single person and we could all hear them our cab driver for instance son of survivors grew up in Albany projects is 70 now he has 8 cabs told us where we could get prime rib dinner for $9 including vegetables drink and desert why is it important that we hear everyone’s stories even the assemblyman who likes to fish how else can we know what this world is?