Thursday, October 8, 2015

Oakland Youth Demi-Monde, part 1






The street provides the role models we desire





A survey of scattered indicia 
of the  jeunesse doree noir on my patch 










You'll have to rip the steering wheel
from some folks' cold dead hands




Chimera of the wealth extraction industry
Owned by the wealthy forever,
It always was all about the money




All the public phones were ripped-out long ago,
Copper land lines worked even in a black-out,
Everything now up in the cloud



A Wall of Graffiti 
appeared over night




Some native hostility





The poster says "OBEY",
No one will





2.


The flag of Oakland is horizontal
I go out





 

Helicopter on the roof,
Pummeling passers-by




Another delivery of prisoners,
America has one quarter of the number
of all the prisoners in the world




There's that damned helicopter
Touring back and forth from the Port,
Flying low over the Coroner's Office






Large helicopter over the old train station building,
The military-to-police trade show is going on,
Protest got it moved to Pleasanton this year,
No doubt some fat Oakland cop bigwig 
Is on a test drive, being sold on the chopper









The Coroner's Office
Touchstone of the neighborhood




Coroner's staff are the only living persons
 Allowed beyond this point





Windows opalescent in the evening dim





Around behind Parker Electric building
With its mural portrait of a duck,
An ominous building painted matte black
Wonder what it's all about






3.
The Underworld Screams for Attention




Oakland Metro Opera House
Hmmm, more curious still







Why, it appears to be a warren 
given over to Satan in its entirety



Murder most high




A nation under an evil spell




Saints preserve us from the criminally insane






Oh now, you hate to see something like that



Such a pretty girl too, 
Someone's lost daughter



Reveling in lunacy
And degeneracy






We'll all have to face the judgement of death someday






Satan wants us to see ourselves as animalistic,
Unworthy of God's love







Death Trip transplant
Bound for the Western Lands 
September-October 2015

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