Nickels and trowels

"Nickels, however, dumps the extra money from all his cuts into the transportation budget to fund his dubious pet projects: $2.7 million in new funds for Sound Transit, $650,000 for his sidewalk upgrade plan, and over $5 million on a brand-new scheme to replace Seattle's parking meters with "pay station kiosks that control multiple spaces." Unfortunately, the new kiosks won't save money in staff time, as you might expect: the $5 million includes 1 new full-time Parking Meter Repair Crew Chief and 1 new full-time Civil Engineering Assistant." (by Maria Tomchik from "Eat the State", Oct 8, 2003)

how i dig thee let me count thee, for the fountain days do haunt thee, all out along the winding walk, a parabola of conditions, frost and fair fires burning away the wooden crossties, all rails helped to ruin, all ashes scattered to four fine winds, my love is "perishable, protected, all alone" like a swan whose downy feathers fill with air in each turn around the pond.