LETTERS: CAPE'S BARD HOLDS FORTH ON BRIDGE DEBATE

To the editor:

The following limerick was inspired by the apparent tiff between Cape Girardeau Mayor Al Spradling III and Southeast Missourian editor Joe Sullivan. The pair seems at odds over whether downtown Cape would be better served by preserving a portion of the current Mississippi River bridge in order to attract tourists (Spradling's idea) or by constructing a downtown golf course (Sullivan's proposal).Though the limerick doesn't reflect it, I would like to make it clear that I am an enthusiastic supporter of both ideas, think both men have ingenious insights, and hold nothing against them for not supporting my idea of making downtown Cape politically freer by tearing down the Berlin-like wall by the river. Bridge Over Troubled Golf Course There once was a mayor from Cape. His ideas left some mouths agape. A newsman named Joe Screamed, "That bridge must go!" Folks closed both their mouths with duct tape.

STEVE MOSLEY

Cape Girardeau