LEXINGTON, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — The sounds of the city include cars and crowds, celebrations and sirens, and, sometimes, clicking and clacking on a corner by the courthouse.
The rhythm comes from a 1961 Smith-Corona typewriter, manual labor from a guy who’s a poet but until recently, didn’t know it.
“It was kind of a leap of faith, going, ‘Huh, we’ll see if I can do this,’ because I have not taken poetry classes. I don’t study poetry. I don’t practice it at home,” Curtis Kaiser said.
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On a recent Friday night, I watched him knock out a verse for a University of Kentucky student in just a couple of minutes.
This is for my class, got that photography minor, With a camera in my hand, there’s no feeling finer.
Curtis Kaiser
Kaiser started his sidewalk sessions after finding a typewriter in his attic about a year ago. He works in a cubicle all day as a mechanical engineer, so this is one way to keep tabs on the city’s social scene.
“There are many interesting topics. I can’t divulge all of them here, but a lot of them have dealt with friendship, being thankful, some with loss,” he said. “I’ve done anything and everything.”