Does any one know who Rae Armantrout is? If you do then what do you think of her poem Middlemen & its meaning?

Question

The story is told from the view point of two young technicians, one fat and one thin, who must give thier superior a moment by moment account of their attempts to monitor the subject. Suspense occurs, occasionally, when they must tell the superior that they're having trouble keeping the listening devices within range. We sympathize with the hunted subject, but also with the clearly competent, frequently exasperated technicians, whose situation is, after all, much more like our own.

That is the poem itself above

Answer 1

I think this is a metaphor for our own individual daily struggles. We are always seeking answer to some question, in everything we do, and usually embarrassed when sometime we cannot find it.