Pedestrian crossing
downtown Ottawa
marked by silhouette:
John Cleese performing Silly Walk.
Tribute to a humourist
and the beauty of bureaucrats
handling tax payers’ money.
I look around.
Parliament.
Prime Minister’s Office.
National Defence.
Bank of Canada.
CBC.
All within walking distance.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
