Poetic licence

To The Coast,

The Coast is the paper I read the most.

The Herald, the Globe, the Daily News, too,

Holler for attention, but it’s not their due.

For I am a Coast fan—it grew by the years,

HRM blues from bars to the beers; 

From columns that inform to those for a laugh,

The Coast is just right to read in the bath…

So HRM is now The Big Apple for me,

And when friends in town visit and I play the host,

I find arts, entertainment and culture to boast—

All sandwiched twixt pages of Halifax’s most

informed little paper—You know it, The Coast!

By D. Alexander Butcher

This article appears in May 18-24, 2006.