Election time
in the City of Ottawa.
I check the list of candidates.
They all promise the same
as others before them:
more jobs, better roads, low taxes.
But
who will confess
they have no solution
to homeless shelters
who will disclose
there’s no definitive deadline
for the Light Rail Transit project
who will admit
they cannot reroute trucks
away from the downtown core
who will acknowledge
organic garbage recycling program
doesn’t meet its goals
who will confirm
the city’s $2 billion debt
is here to stay
who will remove
the dead squirrel
from Alta Vista Drive
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday)
