Old Fashioned Independence Day

Fourth of July in Alameda

At ten in the morning,

Some people love a parade,

I love a bidet

Alameda is all about it

 Bunting is a must

 

It's an all-American kind of town

 Due to the parade earlier today

The center of town was a no-fly zone,

I was dropped off further into neighborhood streets

 Distinctively decorated house

With a glimpse of the ubiquitous 

Sidewalk-driveway cook-outs

 So quiet and old-fashioned a patriotic holiday

It's as if I found a portal to the simpler past

I'm no spoilsport--

I rather dig it

  

 Uplifting nationalistic kitsch,

Does what it is supposed to do

 God bless our home

 Kooky old barns got charm

 Heading by instinct toward the beach,

Thwarted by the fences of a private lagoon

 But I'm at last down with my people

 Even chatted up this Adonis,

Then  I realized he spoke Russian,

And a beautiful babe ran up to embrace him

 The answer my friends,

Blowing in the wind

 Let's dig Crab Cove

 The fish are being their ususual

Mysterious selves

 Sometimes it's almost like they have the blues

 It's OK to fish

Cause they don't have any feelings

 Just in time for the buses to be running again

 Alameda is as America as it gets

 A last salute to Alameda

 

 As All-American as fake ice cream

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Oakland July Forth Weekend

4-5 July 2015