Every Person (in New York and Elsewhere)
In 2008 Jason Polan started a drawing project called EVERY PERSON in NEW YORK (everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.com). He's drawing us all. Some people are famous. Most are not. I love the project, and the site. When I started my interminable endless novel, one of the ideas was to portray, in verse, every person in Middlefield, the town I created, based on many REAL TOWNS (and one in particular) with a population whose number I have frequently changed. (Maybe there are 218 people there.) So many of my poems are Middlefield portraits. And the people have More Than One Appearance. Jason Polan can't do that because there are eight million people in New York City (what a novel that would be. Aha)
Paul
Sometimes he works at the post office. One of those is that a joke yes it is sense of humors he's been married a few times he's very very big likable even though his politics are not. Last week when I went in to buy stamps he said I've got a sheet of Jimi Hendrix for you. You wouldn't know this just by looking said Paul but I know my customers. Tom over the hill he'd rather be dead than put a Jimi on his electric bill. Not you he said. Am I right?