An Inclusive Litany
5/4/03
The Rent Stabilization Board of Berkeley, California,
which administers that city's scarce rental housing stock, sponsored a
"poetry slam" allowing the city's tenants to rant about their
landlords. The winner of the $100 first prize denounced the "platonic
master/slave relationship" between landlord and tenant and recalled
how his last landlord was so bad that he "chose to be homeless for
nine months just to escape the memory."