The Old Neighborhood

Channing Way near Bowditch

Not nostalgia more like memory half-erased

 Kaleidoscopic doors to the past

FREE
 PALESTINE
This has been here longer than I have,

And we're tired of waiting

 Behind this dentist's office on the second floor in back, 

Ray and Lucy dwelt therein from 1980 to 1984,

Visited by many a poet, artist and musician and a few scientists,

And by a few uninvited kooks as well 
I listed the address in my anarcho-surrealist zine,

A guy calling himself Duchamp rang looking for the office

 The Founders Rock indeed

 

 An old time Buddhist church down the street,

I went  inside once, they were very cool,

No one offered to shake my frontal extremity

Oneness in the Nembutsu

Sitar army at the crossroads,

Berkeley is a multicultural dynamo

If you can still find a parking space

for your cyanide pie-mobile

June 2015