On Random Acts of Poetry
"Literary," or just observant, or restless, people who reside in large cities (what's the plural form of "metropolis"?) enjoy an unfair advantage over us Vermonters: They're blessed with an abundance of casually strewn messages — etched by strangers on subway bathrooms, sidewalks, phone booths that don't work — that allow them to read meaning and beauty into phrases that aren't particularly important in the big picture.
So it's a good thing we have Front Porch Forum to stimulate our collective need for the oddly transcendent. Note, for example, a post to my neighborhood forum this weekend:
MOTORCYCLE JACKET
Sat, 29 March 2008
And hello again. I am searching for a leather motorcycle jacket, size
medium, not too many zippers. I have cash. And the body to fill it.
So, if you have a jacket, let's talk.
More odd than transcendent? Hard to say, Mike.
Watch the next issue for an answer to the jacket need... and Leonard Nimoy LPs for sale.
Michael Wood-Lewis
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Posted by: Michael Wood-Lewis | April 01, 2008 at 10:51 AM