From the Drive-By Archive

1.

MLK Oakland to Shattuck Berkeley

The Starline Social Club

Murals promoting mental health

And its absence

Just what the neighborhood needs

More gangster posturing

The anthropomorphic muffler shop

Wish there was mufflers for noisy, exhausting people

A dry garden center 

I was a premature for a good view

Of the Bullwinkle sun sculpture

Once last chance Baptist

Now Self-Realization

 La Pena

The three-dimensional mural recalls

 Victor Jara playing guitar with disembodied arms

 2.

Sundry

Sari, wrong number
Bengali University Avenue

First rainy day

The schoolyard seems more kinetic today

Rainy intersection of Piedmont and Pleasant Valley,
Cemetery cul de sac

Back to the central idea of Oakland