Sunday, February 14, 2016

Ice Ice Baby











On balmy Lincoln's birthdays
 the Flaneur finds somewhere to cool his head






The every-day erotic uncanny.
pervades










Across the street from the flowering trees
Young cat drives his guitar in modal fashion





Berkeley Community Theater
Part of the high school complex where I saw shows by
 Lou Reed, Joan Baez, Bo Diddley, Robert Plant, 
and the first US appearance of  the legendary Clash,
Other historic concerts include Dylan and the Hawks
David Bowie's final local show in 2002 and
The Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley film concert
I even got a pranam from the Dali Lama at the stage door




The Magnes museum
Judaica... I've never visited...
Are Goyim welcome to convert?




Secular icons abound




The Gaia building
A colossal municipal art hornswoggle









Full of goddess baloney












There has been a Mexican restaurant here
Since the land belonged to Spain







This is the full-of-itself
Brower center
Hub of environmental do-gooder 
hypocrisy



The lobbyist's lobby







This represents the Burroughsian centipede
At the heart of things
Swept under the rug





A ghost ship frozen on its voyage
Anywhere out of this world






The world of
Vanishing Ice







Pendulous icicles are like
Stalactites in a crevasse,
Back in the day
Ice caps, glaciers, rich cold seas,









Today it goes without mention,
An Armageddon of ice loss
Occurs as we speak







Surrealism at the end of days






The stylized olden days of humanity,
Fleshy earth paintings
A school I'd discovered in Canada's
Great White North





A putrescent garden
Decaying corpse of what once was



Human attempt to melt a glacier
using their collective body temperature


An inescapable conclusion
Forebodes







Let it come down







Meanwhile I while away my biological life
Embedded in flowering clover
Nourished on a diet of plants






Alive, outdoors, under the life-giving sky,
Nothing left but the recording










12 February 2016

2 comments:

Glenn Ingersoll said...

Love the magnolia shots.

RAY MAN said...

magnolia, you sweet thing
you're driving me mad