Poetry Correspondent Gloriana Casey strikes again with another timely verse:
" Dear County: About those .." Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free!"
from gloriana casey 9-11-11
We HUNGER for a place to meet,
all of Altadena!
So let's all join to make it work.
In rhyming scheme, my DREAMA!
For Fancy Food Trucks bring to all
a chance to celebrate.
So government, join with us now,
hard times enjoin our fate!
We do expect your rules to work
and help to build the city,
but rules are making life so mean.
You haven't any pity!
So I suggest that Websters hold,
a PRIVATE Birthday Club.
To celebrate ALL citizens
and also grab some grub!
A chance for ALL to join as one,
to celebrate each month.
For Birthday Clubs are awfully fun.
This city needs some UMP!
A dollar I would pay to join,
and all could be a member,
to pay your silly rule change fees,
and go on past September!
A PRIVATE party , once a month
just like a RESIDENCE.
We'd celebrate all citizens
in PRIVATE birthday sense.
Your rules, I read, but could not find
those for a PRIVATE club.
A Birthday Club for citizens
in Altadena's hub!
Environmental test? O.K.
BUt please remember this.
YOU started digging up some land,
the EPA, you dissed!
So please remember that this town
is worthy, yes it's true!
And if you throw the rules out,
it's fair to act like you!
So please don't think my attitude
translates to something snarky
But really, looking through the glass.
I'm seeing you quite darkly.
And truly once a man here moved
a stream bed from its way!
No fine had he, but FOOD is fined?
What more can logic say?
We need this monthly Food Truck fun,
for city to BREATHE free!
WE celebrate! Our FUTURE'S here!
So please, just let us BE!
So citizens rise up and speak,
some rules can be a rotter!
There's MAGIC in your grassroots words!
Be like Harry Potter!***
