A Poetic Reaction to Perfection Quest

The Column One on Irvine by Eric Bailey (“Irvine: City That Works--for Some,” Dec. 1) was an excellent depiction of man’s search for perfection. The following was written after moving to such a man-made paradise:

Planned communities everywhere

cloned in multiplicity;

each a perfect neighbor

with no room for eccentricity.

Expensive keeping up to do

maintaining their duplicity;

Utopia for those who dwell

in sweet pristine plasticity.

BARBARA TAYLOR, Mission Viejo