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On the sign:
THE IMPOSSIBLE POEM
Climbing the peak of Tamalpais the loose Gravel underfoot
Ana the city shining with the tremendous wrinkles In the hills and the winding of the bay Behind it, it faces the bent ocean
Streetcars Rocked thru the city and the winds Combed their clumsy sides In clumsy times
Sierras withering Behind the storefronts
And sanity the roadside weed Dreams of sports and sportsmanship
In the lucid towns paralyzed Under the truck tires Shall we relinquish
Sanity to redeem Fragments and fragmentary Histories in the towns and the temperate streets Too shallow still to drown in or to mourn The courageous and precarious children.
Berklee’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.
The current plaque features a poem written by the American poet George Oppen (1908-1984), who lived in San Francisco and won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry