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Before we had newspapers and journalists, we had poets. When all communities were small and tribal, poets were sometimes leaders and prophets.

A prophet is a poet naming out loud the community’s pain. That is what some of the books, psalms and words of the Old Testament are.

In today’s paper is a Bob Skeele poem about KeyBank closing their La Conner branch in April. It is his response to the letter they mailed customers saying that to provide better service they are moving to Mount Vernon.

Skeele’s poem asks, “How are the users better served / making night deposits in another town?�...