To the editor:

As I am sure many of our citizens are aware, the City Commission is seriously considering moving City Hall from downtown to an existing building at the hidden northeast corner of Sixth and Iowa. If one is not aware, I would encourage them to get involved and follow the proceedings carefully.

When our current City Hall was opened for business in 1980, an inscription contest for the new building was held (it’s now affixed to the wall to the left of the main entry). The winning entry, from a 10-year-old girl, was from the opening stanza of a Langston Hughes poem:

We have tomorrow

Bright before us

Like a Flame

With a possible new City Hall at Sixth and Iowa, I’d like to be proactive and submit a few inscription entries just in case (and with apologies to the memory of Hughes and all poets everywhere):

We now have downtown

A distant thought

Like a void

If one prefers a more upbeat tone for the possible new home at that leafy, suburban campus, how about this:

So glad you found us!

Parking galore!

Safe secure!

Walt Clogston,

Lawrence