Question

If you have read "Democracy" by Sara Holbrook, plzz help me with this, if you didnt pleaze seach it up and read it and help me?

Answer 1

The question is,
interpert what the narrator means in lines 24-26 and lines 27-29!

Answer 2

is this a book or short story?

Answer 3

Thump.
Thump.
A large woman thumps, thumps.
Thumps past my office.
Thump. Thump,
down the hall to the ladies room.
Sounds of water running followed by
the swing of the squeaky door,
it slaps against the wall
oozing toward a bumpy close.
Thump. Thump.
I look up as she passes again.
Dark hallway.
Dark clothing.
Dark hands.
White toilet paper.
Thump. Thump.
I watch after her passing.
Thump. Thump.
She stole the toilet paper.
Also government issue,
two rolls per day.

Issued by
the same government that
murders mountains of forests for the
confusion of paper it takes to
purchase a pencil through
proper procurement procedures.
The same government that
offers tax abated housing to
for profit football teams and
levies income tax on where's-the-profit
unemployment compensation.
The same government that
issues food stamps for
koolaid, popsicles and tater tots
but not for toilet paper,
like it's some privilege
that poor folks don't need.
That same government issues us
two rolls per day,
93% of the days since our last 7% cut.
Two rolls.

I rub at the crow's feet which are deepening into my mother's face
and listen to her leaving.

She stole the toilet paper.
The clock silently mouths
that it's just 3:05.
I wait for a moment, reluctant to go
once more against the mountain,
knowing the thin air
makes me lightheaded.
Finally I move.

"Ma'am, did you take our toilet paper?"
She looks straight ahead,
the two rolls propped on knees flung wide.
She is slow to acknowledge my presence,
slow looking up at the self-conscious stand
I have taken beside her over-filled chair.
In a glance
she reminds me that I am too tall,
too thin, too well-dressed,
and too goddamned white.

"I need it," she replies.
And that need, I know,
is not entirely selfish,
that need embraces the needs
of her children,
her grandchildren,
maybe a neighbor.
But it does not embrace the needs
of her neighbors with whom
she shares this waiting room.
"I have to ask for it back," I say,
citing the needs of the others.
Reluctant herself,
she complies.

Practically speaking,
she is a republican.
I retreat to return the basics
to the necessary place,
dizzy with
democracy.

Answer 4

it's a poem!

Answer 5

What does murders mountains of forests for the
confusion of paper it takes to
purchase a pencil through

and

proper procurement procedures.
The same government that
offers tax abated housing to

mean?

Answer 6

im sorry i dont really know...

Answer 7

its ok! would you have an idea?

Answer 8

not really are there answer choices for this question?

Answer 9

no, but i found out what it means, im going to tell you so you would know too!
It means the government will cut down trees for paper and for us to get a pencil in the right way, but that's only for lines 24-26!