She Was Riding on the Bus
"Do you want to tell me about being on television? The teacher told me to ask you about it." "Not really......" She's always at the studio, amusing herself while her mom exercises. Dressed to the nines, with hair accessories matching her outfits, her smile as big as the sky. She dances to the rest room, streaking past our sweating bodies, trying to become invisible. That is impossible; her personality fills the room. Not wanting to be too pushy, I left the conversation at that. I'd done what I'd been asked to do; I posed the query. We were both satisfied, but her maternal unit was having none of it. Pressured by her parent, she relented. "I was on that bus in Oracle, on my way to camp." That bus .... the yellow school bus GOP Congressional candidate Adam Kwasman and his fellow protestors were trying to block ... the one that they feared was carrying disease ridden, gang prone, undocumented children.... children who were terrifi...