Comments on: Poem for Display in a Municipal Building

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:23:30 +0000

In reply to zoe. Thanks! And thanks for leaving these comments on older posts -- helps keep the archives from getting too musty.

By: zoe

zoe — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:15:43 +0000

saprophytic!
that has to be the best use of that word, ever. starting from “the record, that stagnant pool..”
i love this whole series.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:22:15 +0000

Beth – ‘Fraid not. (Though from what I hear, Florida politicos are second to none!)

Joan – Yes, it could always be worse. Co-option and token democracy are always preferable to out-and-out repression. Or, needless to see, mentally unbalanced people with guns. Not to be confused with people with messianic complexes in charge of the most powerful military in history.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:11:07 +0000

Well now. I was just getting your library poem prepped for posting on our library bulletin board, when along comes this one. I can’t tell you what a temptation it is to stick this one upstairs near the boardroom where the City Council meets.

I have watched our tentative saprophytic hands rise for permission to speak a various occasions. At least they get to speak. Someday something might get done.

Sadly, we live close to a community where a man, crazed by frustration and some mental illness, spoke with a gun.

By: Beth W.

Beth W. — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:22:29 +0000

Uh, so it’s not just OUR county commissioners. . .

By: dale

dale — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:48:27 +0000

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