Neither more nor less

One night not so many years ago during the drug-crazed middle '90s half a dozen young men were arrested and hauled away from a location just above 7th street on avenue A for selling heroin in or near Tompkins Square Park .

Shortly after the arrests , a young woman who had probably just bought her dope from the arrestees just before they were arrested , walked up to a parking meter in front of two of the team of plainclothes cops that had made the arrests and leaned on it , "nodding out " unable to move away from the scene of the arrests because she was too high to do so .The two plainclothes officers watched her for a while and then left the scene .