Beatnik Halloween III

The Wizard of Anarchy

My oldest Berkeley haunts

refurbished ever anew

nevermore

The Beat Generation arose

as a ray of existential hope

out of the post-WWIII nihilism

 noirism,

The Punks were the Beats

 for a different yet 

all-too-similar era,

elements of neo-dada

 faux-naive arte brute

Green Fairy

on BART train

Need a sun umbrella

 to preserve my skull

Into the swanky 

21st Century 

Elmwood

Mountain dwarf warlock

riding the 51B,
Berkeley welcomes the weird
or at least it used to

Trad Hallowe'en

Candy holiday numero uno

followed by Xmas, Easter,

 St Valentine's

and the July the Fourth

Inside Boss Robot

Warning:

cybernetic inventory control

Art of the First Nation

A recent story about polar bears outside

a remote research station in Scandinavia:

No longer able to hunt due to absent ice islands

the bears stalk the station,
killing and eating one of two dogs,

a big female sleeps by the door,

They had to be airlifted
more flares and more dogs to

 keep the hungry bears at bay

Hallowe'en greeting cards

Who needs them when you can DIY

disturbing mail art instead?

Well, I'm a human fly

I spell F-L-Y,

The Cramps were to Hallowe'en

what Der Bingle was to Xmas

Now that's the spirit I seek

 animistic panic

Oblique animal eyes

Evolutionary entanglement

I generally support
 the Centrist candidate,

so I'm casting my vote
 for the cow skull

We want  to see

the first lady president

one of us

 

Bestial urges 

emerge from the 

canine brain

Into the soft shark tank

for most of us

Ah well,

let's turn the corner

when the traffic will allow

On to Russell street

quotidian today--al fresco cafe,

lurking squad car,

But come the 31st

this here's October Country

Maybe a nice horchata latte

 with cannabutter caramel?

Berkeley

raising Punk rockers 

for generations,
It has to do with the dysphoria
induced by income inequality

We start them young,

one big happy 

Adams family

I like to put on a glow

for the haunted holidays

myself

Selfie photo-op

These days we're a long way 

from People's Park Power,

Is this mess

the best photo in that book?

And I got yr little dog too

And so we close our tour

window-shopping 

for eye-candy,

Tracing uncanny tap roots

for a cheap frisson

The Elmwood

October 2016