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On the sign:
BECAUSE WE NEED GOOD MAPS
At this age of his when he wasn’t here,
I study my imagination for the father of the nine-year-old me, the adventures
exciting him way off across a globe
with no country on it named Viet Nam. I have to go find him, the man who came back
a stranger. My father must still be roaming,
charting lose locations for this year of mine which marks the journey I can’t start.
Berkeley’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 by the American poet and writer Gary Soto (1952) who taught at the University of Berkeley.