Item Six
The agenda is one page. Somebody ran it through the copier this afternoon and the toner is going, so item six is fainter than item five.You can read it anyway.Outside the county annex, there are nine pickups, a sheriff’s Tahoe, and a Buick that belongs to a woman named Arlene who has kept the minutes of this commission for thirty-one years. It is a Tuesday in March on the high plains of Nebraska. The wind is doing what the wind does. Inside, the fluorescent lights hum over four rows of folding chairs. Usually there are three people in them. Tonight there are twenty-six.There is a coffee urn…
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