parks

This is from Joseph Lima's letter to the editor today in the Modesto Bee. For the beginning paragraph and full text, see Opinion section http://www.modbee.com online.

Artists have various means of paying the bills, and of course you need to get around a bit, just to have something to art about. One of my part time jobs is real estate research, you get paid if a deal made, but that's ok, as its what I used to do, and you hang art in houses. So, last Sunday, i needed something to do, and my friend asked about a property for rent downtown I'd not seen, so I took a walk. Walking down the real estate, modesto downtown appraisal walk, by mercenary graphics. Realtors also use posters, flyers, for sale signs, employ artists at times. They also right ad copy for their stuff, so being a writer, sometime poet, seemed I should look for some new poetic for my myspace blog and yahoo 360, here at myspace and blue doodle, as new poem rhyme stuff, while I'm kicking up the dusty trail in mo town, apparently working while goofing off. Multi tasking parttime employed unemployment I think you'd call it.

The scene is in a park, a redwood middle, hedgerows trimmed, bus stop corner, and an oaktree nearby, a trash can, and four benches.

Prior shows in this park near me, reminded by angryf's blog on the clean graffiti were typically black, uninspired tagger works, such I called in an undersung artist, after noting the landscape improvements since Grover prunings, and by email to city parks and neighborhoods, the graffiti abatement painter.