Berkeley Arts Today

From the razor-edged fine art

to vernacular forms,

Berkeley leads the art rat pack

Whichever way you tastes lean

Live in California long enough

and you may find yourself

in a few Mexican films noir

Abstract quilt

at the public library

Blue screen effect

 Dennis Hopper

Sat next to him in temple

Allen Ginsberg memorial

 in San Francisco,

Where's Bruce Conner 

he asked me

Utility box green-wash

Falling staple

in birch wood

Appropriation

in film arts

The world is so

if you know

where to look

The Period Approach Movement

Berkeley has long been

a center for early music

Traditional arts

exhibited

all over town

Oil painting

of an eastern-European

Jewish wedding

Well, it's not

the ten commandments,

Side walk guerilla frieze

Don't forget

to boycott, divest and sanction

to end the military occupation

of Palestine

Another American Civil War?

Troglodytes may love to fight

But we don't let go of

freedom

28 April 2016

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