11/10/25, “Public Hearing Regarding the Liquor License Application of …”

A letter is read by a concerned citizen regarding a local pizza place

appealing for a liquor license, “…this will be the sixth business

on or around the square

to serve alcohol on their premises….”

The citizen has concerns:

Drunken students trespassing on her and neighbors’ property

with footsteps, nescience, and synovial expurgation

not her words but mine; to say it plain:

she wished to do without nightly watering of her flower beds.

All the same, the new council hears it all in silence;

it’s a valid concern, they seem to think, but who can do business

in a college town without spirits free to drink?

And so it goes,

               they take a vote,

                              and every one confirms

                                                            a “Yea”

                                                                           without any further discussion.

“But did you know the Holiday Farmer’s Market is being held this weekend?”

-Johnny Byutorie