Re: People's Republic of Idaho?

[vico@indigo.ie]

I am an out-of-town (out-of-continent) interested observer of your 
community debate about Moscow's future.

I think you have a great structure here to support and compliment 
traditional and democratic processes.  

I have not seen what has gone before but I am planning to promote such a 
model for our own town here south of Dublin, Ireland and will (if you 
folks don't mind take) some some lessons from your approach.

I am a development poet by profession and use my craft to stimulate 
interest or make a point and find verse has the capacity to summarise and 
reach depths that prose cannot(or that I cannot reach with prose).  Also 
with everyone under such time constraints these days, many seem not to 
have space for prose.

I wrote one piece for example about experiences in the course of many 
visits to Moscow (Russia) some years ago:

                There is something vivid in the Russian air
                Towers domed and taller than despair
                An archipelago of dreaming souls
                Patiently still paying all their culture's tolls
                The Russians have a saying 
                That you shouldn't eat the blosson
                Wait until the fruit is fuller
                Breathe its scent of course
                And feed yourself upon its color

                                           Hay Machine (e)


I believe we have a lot to learn from eachother.  



Kind regards and best wishes



Terry Browne
Dublin