On Ocean Street, an abandoned phone booth found new life as a poetry project. Then it vanished.

On Ocean Street, an abandoned phone booth found new life as a poetry project. Then it vanished.

On a recent Sunday in late July, an art piece appeared on a stretch of Ocean Street in Santa Cruz, one that came wrapped in a mystery.  An abandoned phone booth in front of Budget and Avis rental car companies, across from the Paradox Hotel, had been covered in dozens of poems and stickers that appeared to be modified versions of the City of Santa Cruz’s official logo. Across the top of the structure, stickers proclaimed it “The Dead Ocean Phone…