RECALL: Why? 2013 too late

Why are issues in our “Eden” flaming such distress?

Is it in part because city leaders

Could not bring themselves to “yes”

Responding in earnest, advisory vote request?

Do you recall?

Why did our queries, they so much distrust?

In probing deeper depths, we could not help but come to understand

They simply did not want us

“Messing” with THEIR almost solely “handpicked” plan.

Do you recall?

Remarking that after all, “the public were not park planners!”

“Touche” we said, “but we are pretty fair as careful scanners —

Not too terribly bad as average understanders;

And some of what we saw, $ stuck hard in our craw.”

Do you recall?

To wait until the 2013 election we reasoned would be too late.

The “money horse” was breaking from the gate.

His trainers with all dispatch move him along the designated track.

To the “winner’s money circle” where the color of green UR drained tax money!

Makes everything beautiful, even black!

Now we recall.

What else are we to do?

Just go away with a whimper and a cry?

Like “big boys” just wipe our eyes dry?

Is that what these good folks would have us do?

Stab the hearts still pulsing: “To thine own self be true.”

No, no… This we could not do!

But what was left, what avenue?

To fight the might and slight of City Hall

And that giant, rolling tax gathering UR money ball?

Only recall?

Say it’s not true! They left but one timely choice

To stay the course

Of that unharnessed tax snorting money source (UR)?

If so — We must recall!

Coeur d’Alene citizens:

We did not set out to recall!

No vote, no public voice

Damn it, no choice!

That answers the “why”

That’s been our sway

Part of it anyway

Enough to make this old man cry!

Author’s note: Poetry, even simple verse like that above, has long been engaged in enlarging, enlightening, enriching our consciousness of various subjects and positions.

TOM KANE

Coeur d’Alene