• "GOOD. D HI you
are doing yOW' thinkin ,
mber: You only hear what I
, y; not t I think."
"Oh, really. Do you think tbe
rin ble?"
• "0. I don't believe in
ee rabip nd I don't believe in
orders' either."
: "I am not followin you, Wrote.
'!N'e you ving me difficultie
don't kno bout?"
"Why? Who re you: Mi
Sigmond Freud? I don't need
analyzing. I need leep. Do you
hear11 need leep."
"It' trange about High! nd
Park' politics," Wichita said.
Letting me know he hadn't heard
a word I had aid.
·It· bringing out the nastine
in people. I don't know who i
doing it and It really doesn't matter
beca I am talking about
nMtiness, not people. But I've seen -
the disfigurement of some political
lID' and beard that one of the
mayor's banners w covered up."
"As poll tical minded you
seem to be Wichita," 1 aid,
"you've forgotten, or you never
heard: 'AU' fair in love and war. '"
"EXACTLY. EXACTLY.
Wrote. That' why the voter has to
realize: voting responsibility
doesn't end at the polls; it begins at
the polls."
"What's yOW' problem,
Wichita?" I asked. "In a lot of
ways you sound bitter. Are you
having 'romantic problem' or are
you the devil in disgui e?"
·Neither of tho e things, Wrote.
My love life is my busin aI1d if
thia five feet, four inch body of .
mine, with 36-24-36 measurements
la a disguise, that' everybody
elsea problem, not mine." .
"Ab ba," I said. "It's funny how
conversation brings out. and
reinforces what a lot of people
believe about the yardstick for.
beauty." .
"What is all that suppo to
mean? Sam said that ometimes
your thoughts are bizarre."
"Good." I said. "That let's me
know my drummer is loud and ,
clear. It reminds me of the politics
you are tatking about, Everybody
.. y they have the answer to what
ails this community."
"COME ON WROTE. Come
OD. You are beginni ng to speak to
the topic. But the voters need to
keep whomever is in, or whomever
gets in, feet to the fire. And that
Include the ones sent to Lansing
and Washington, too. Bring them
bomeregularly and demand an
accounting of your dollars and
trust."
"I'll buy that," I said. "But what
If?"
"What iff" Wichita houted.
"What if what?"
"What if they find an excuse
and won't come back? What if
.. ,they feed you malarkey? What if
they say one thing and do another?
Do you need any more what irs?"
"No. I don't need any more
what ifa. I need time to think about
what you've aid."
"Good." I said. "And while you
are thinking, think about these dad
blasted 4 O'Clock phone calls. If
the three of you have ome kind of
problems, check the phone book.
1bere are all kinds of anonymous
programs in it. You will find
alcohol, drugs, over eating,
pmbling. sex, I ying, and who
knows, there may even be one
about politics because from what
I've beard, some people get 'bit'
by the 'politic bug' and will do any
tbin& 10 get elected. And that is the
bottomUoc."
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Unlike suburban YMCA's
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citie , inner city Y's are named
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There are two Y' in Detroit '
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. Why? Walker $id the Men's
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It is rumored that, members of
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