No this is not a post about a musical review of some metal band. You would think it's not about some political protest. After all the pairing of the words "political" and "machine: conjure up memories of Tammany Hall or Chicago Mayoral elections. That kind of thing can't happen here, our city elections and our school committee elections are distinctly nonpartisan, insulating us from such abuses.
That's what one would think, but there is a party at work here. It is the party of the status quo. We are too comfortable with what we know, who we know. Names we have heard before will at least won't surprise us, even if the increments of improvement seemed stalled.
Perhaps that is why it has been left to a pesky poet to point out his ponderings about why things have gone awry. Change provides the only way to getting better.
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