Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Back Back to square one
“It got dim Johnny.”
“That happens when Tory’s around.”
“Crown’s around?”
“Yeah.”
“Tory Crown dimmed the light?”
“Metaphorically.”
“What stopped Crown from turning the lights out?”
“You Gus.”
Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Square “What?!”
“You Yank.”
“Me?”
“You.”
“Metaphorically?”
“No Gus, you for real.”
“Be square Johnny.”
“I am being square.”
“Seems like a circle-merry-go-round to me.”
“Corners Gus, like a flanking move.”
“Okay.”
“You Yanks didn’t give up: you just kept at us.”
“We was against you Johnny, not Tory Crown.”
“Think again Gus.”
“How so?”
“Let's step over here –”
“Sure.”
Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere One “Free people Gus: how were they to be represented?”
“You asked that before.”
“Right.”
“Census somehow, but I don’t know.”
“Tory Crown knew.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“What did Crown know?”
“How to divide us,” explained Johnny, “how to divide We the People.”
“A dis-unionizer.”
“Correct.”
“That’s the Anti-Republic part you mentioned.”
“It is.”
“Is? Not was?”
“Is.”
“So Johnny, how are free people to be represented?”
“Perhaps if we use the three-fifths clause to illustrate …”
Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues Sunday 26 June with Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Three-Fifths.
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