Tim Shadbolt is the mayor of the city of Invercargill, New Zealand, and former mayor of Waitemata City (now part of Waitakere City).

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• In Russia - Poets are considered a danger to the political system and are sent into Asylums.

What a compliment to the Russian People
that poetry could move them so.
In NZ Poets are not considered a danger.
No one reads poetry
Poets aren't sent to Asylums but they are considered mad nonetheless

• • From the introduction to "Concrete Reality"

Attributed

• If 25 years of smoking "dope" has addled my brain, I must have been an intellectual giant in my youth.

• I don't care where, as long as I'm mayor.
  • for a television advertisment, which involved people saying things they'd rather not