Letter to the Editor:
Burbankers must do more to liberate themselves from more financial submergence by Sacramento’s supramajority, also known unaffectionately by many Californians as our State’s indisputable “1,000-Year Wreck” regime.
Disappointingly, Burbank’s City Council has not been forceful publicly in its only slightly perceivable effort to resist Sacramento and Los Angeles METRO diktat producers. All five City Council members regularly feign, fake-out or forge their public personas to fool voting Burbankers. So, to them, and them alone, I present a rewritten “poem” memorializing their fakirish fakery, their pronounced public relationship passivity, on this impending SB-79 Burbank development problem. I have added a second stanza to the altered original (first published 3/5/26 at “myBurbank”):
The day will come
When Burbankers will trace
Their once happy passage through civic space
By dirty food-to-go plates and dumped plastic toiletries
Banana peels and graffitted BRT Olive Avenue station public potties
Inhale the persistent toxic fallout from exploded and burnt battery buses.
Hail BRT, salute sad Burbanker’s indecisive and faint-hearted City Council
But, retreat from its littered and sickening outdoor political real-estate BRT trophy
For escape, await the 50%-off sale for Mercury’s Winged Shoes instead
At the very next final “All Stock Must Be Sold” small business closure
Perhaps our bevy of oleaginous politicians will redub famously historic Olive Avenue for themselves?
Richard B. Cathcart
Burbank
