They're Back...

 Berkeley students
 and other assorted schooly youth,

I mean

Subterranean homesick blues

In back of the real

 The garden of earthly delights,

Heaven and Hell

 

 The shrine of the burning mind

You can loosen thy 

undergarments

But keep your socks

pulled up

 Players on the playa,

 Don't lose your mind 

or your behind

 Some palm trees

are too damn tall

 This is the Elmwood

it was formerly

my section of town

Morning Glory

 Gardens abound

 Redwoods

ascend toward

the moon

 

 Coastal California

money in the bank

 Yosemite Sam

 shot up the place

and he made off
with the gold

Ve are ze robots

 Automotive fantasy,

Endless traffic on

on Ashby

 Really a no-nonsense

kind of town

 

 Back when books were king 

the majority of people you met

on Berkeley sidewalks

would know who this was,

Dead nearly now twenty years

 Making room for more

student housing

on Center street

August 2016