The welcoming sidewalks of Berkeley,
Getting ready for the Fourth
The old peace and less traffic of June and July
The Flaneur can't help but wonder where it went
The State of Town
.
The new target audience,
With money-a-pocket
Fifteen feet tall
Fifteen feet tall
Slapping up housing like there is a tomorrow,
A lot of water hook-ups, untold car exhaust
A cardboard town best described in purple prose
Living here requires a strong back
The equanimity of Gotama the Buddha
2.
Post-Urban Planning
Berkeley has places for everyone,
You just have find one for yourself
Family is important
Disgust is now commonplace downtown
There's always yoga, chanting, incense, vegetarianism,
No reason not to
Everything the young vajrayogini needs
I'm more of a mermaid socks kind of guy
News flash: the world's a ruin
I know a place nearby
Where the coffee approaches perfection
3.
A Rose from Library Gardens
For the deceased and for the injured
found in the crosswalk
bloomed at last in a wine-glass
rosebud broken-off
rosebud broken-off
Turns out the investment-group owners are the town's biggest tax-payers
Which is not to say that fact had anything to do
With the City's perfunctory investigation of the calamity
Attempting to hand the balconies over to the guilty builders themselves
Only to be arrested by a district attorney with an Irish name.
The crooked builders sued the DA to "participate" in the testing
Losing, as moves are made to change the law concerning
These very builders' ability to hide the details of negligence settlements.
July 2015
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