poetry plaque on Keefer street
When she returned
from overseas, people
complained that she stood
too closely, sometimes they could
feel her breath, soured by late afternoon,
a moist jet of speech…
With time she retreated and people
began to feel better again.
Whoever wrote it, we know one thing about them: they’re Canadian!
This plaque is sitting about twelve feet up on a wall on the corner of an alley at Keefer Street just East of Main.
Nobody knows where it came from, nobody knows who wrote it. Or do they? Do you? If so, let us know in the comments, for yea verily we are way curious.
The Shebeen Club 
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I also took a picture of this plaque when I lived in Vancouver , I have been wondering about it for years.
For years? How long has it been there? I don’t think it was there prior to late 2009, was it?
Sorry about the late reply! (I also have a new, very clear, photo) Yes this plaque was there long before 2009 because I took my first photo of it 2005-11-05, could have been there 10, 20 30 years before that! I moved to Chinatown in about 1976. Seems like it was “always there”
Wow, thanks. How odd I lived there for ten years and never noticed it.
I shared on Facebook [James M James] since I re-uploaded my (very clear) photo of this plaque.