A Few Thoughts On Patt Morrison’s Radio Show Being Dropped

Since Patt will soon be shown the KPCC door

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate

Some other things just taking up space here

In the good ol’ Golden State.

Pasadena’s yearly parade is nice, I guess,

If you like roses

But it’s been around for far too long, so in

2013, it closes.

JPL? See ya! Curiosity landed but Mars

Is bleak, empty & quite a far

Place to go and just drive around in a

Rather pricey souped-up car.

The Hollywood Bowl is beloved and I

Really don’t mean to goof on it

But why keep it around when everyone

Would prefer it had a roof on it?

The Capitol Records building was built to look

Like a turntable with more than one record.

But turntables aren’t in fashion. Besides, aren’t

Musicians’ pasts often grim and checkered?

Yes, I know there are positive things to say

About the Griffith Park Observatory

But it’s way too high and hard to get to, so

Let’s dispatch it off to purgatory.

Olvera Street? Adios! I’m sure we can agree

It’s from a long ago era --- is

Anyone (without using Wikipedia) even sure

What the heck an “Olvera” is?

Angels Flight runs too short a distance to

Let it remain: I bet

No one will really miss Sinai & the same

Applies to Olivet.

Walt Disney Concert Hall isn’t old and

Things do look awfully slick there

But lose it anyway because its conductor

Has inappropriately thick hair.

(Speaking of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Instead of Gustavo Dudamel

Dump him and go get that young hunk from

“Transformers,” Josh Duhamel.)

Vin Scully’s been on the air for 63 years?

Take him off KLAC and I mean STAT!

Put him on briefly throughout the day:

Just like KPCC wants to do with Patt.

The Bradbury Building is nice but ancient:

It belongs in Madam Tussauds

Along with The Pantry, LACMA & haven’t

You eaten enough at Musso’s?

The Watts Towers look rickety & were done

Without a professional design

And don’t you think “tagging” whenever you

Look at the Hollywood Sign?

Patt’s a landmark on the SoCal landscape.

Among her many fans, few joke

About her leaving. Actually, none. This is

Going to be KPCC’s New Coke.

Tony Peyser has been a fan of Patt Morrison’s

for the last few decades and appeared on her

show as her poet-in-residence for the last few

months.