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Last night, at the latest de LaB (design east of La Brea) design event, Alissa Walker read her poem, The Night Before Layoffs--a fantastic piece referencing everyone from Frank Gehry and Richard Koshalek to Brad Pitt and Maarten Baas. Here're the first few stanzas. Click on for more deliciousness!

The Night Before Layoffs
by Alissa Walker

Twas LA in a downturn and all through downtown,
Not a crane was stirring; no foundations in-ground.
The scaffolding covered the buildings with care,
In hopes that the financing soon would be there.

Eli Broad was asleep, on his piles of money
With $30 million for MOCA nestled close to his tummy.
And Gail Goldberg was snoozing, so was Mayor Villaraigosa,
Telling staffers to wake them when all this was over.

When on Bunker Hill there arose such a clatter,
Louder than NIMBYs in the Republic of Santa Monica!
Upon this disturbance the journalists swooped,
If only to prevent bloggers from getting the scoop.

The electronic billboards gave off such a glow
That the luster of iPod ads was on objects below.
When what should our wondering eyes next detect,
But a hybrid Lexus, and eight starchitects!

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