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Somerville will get official poet before you even know it
By adamg on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 8:06am
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What Somerville really needs
What Somerville really needs is a Paver Laureate.
But public works don't
But public works don't generate "buzz." If we could get the pavers to pave ironically somehow, that'd be the ticket. They could start a whole street fair around it: "we're like, you know, 'paving the street.'"
It's 2k a year
That's enough asphalt to be about a moderate sized driveway length of a street - not counting wages, equipment, and trucks.
Paving streets do generate a lot buzz, however. Compared to lot of stuff, seeing nice and new paved streets is a very visible imagery of something tangible for tax dollars. This was recognize by some politicians, notably Lantigua where fortunately it failed, but he did garner support by some using it.
This headline made me giggle,
This headline made me giggle, Adam, thank you. :)
I rime
and my feet are Longfellow's
And next we're going to find
And next we're going to find out that it's everyone's favorite vandal--Not Art Guy. His first work will be "Not a Poem" and he really wants people to examine and think "Is this a poem? Is it not a poem?"