Permanent Revolution

Unrest overturns the security

 of our police state plutocracy

The Flaneur is there

 There's a vigorous 

vociferous march tonight

Heavy police manoeuvres,

I saw phalanx in riot gear

hurrying up Broadway 

The mob tried Washington street

where they were halted

 Multiple helicopters

buzzing round my hive,

Motorcycles of all strokes

worried the streets

 Sweeping the neighborhood

with a hostile searchlight

 The voice of an angry black bitch cop

came over a loudspeaker aimed

toward a crowd halted at 8th,

Threatening arrest

and worse

The roving copter shined

his search light in my window

for an instant

The mob threw bottles

Malatov cocktail party alleged 

There were two percussions

like dulled fireworks 

Toxic gas

I felt it fast and had to shut my windows

Not a lot of concern for

for innocent neighbors

in a total surveillance state

 

 I opened it again

popular history is unresistable

the lower light is a stationary chopper

You could feel the peak had passed

it must have been the gas

 It went on with distant

rumbles and thinning helicopters

I didn't even notice when they

opened the streets again

One copmobile stayed 

on the freeway ramp late

 So the next day

everybody is all

radicalized and militant

 Naw, we ain't like that

.In addition to the bank

and the T Mobile store

the looted the non-corporate

Oaklandish store too

Why cause they got cool shit

Some political statement

 But the scene

just changed again

with a cannabis inspired

art store

 Ain't nothing but  a party now

 Look how we sexy

An equally high

street artist adds

his ideation

 

 Cheeky is OK

Nosy not so much

 A crow's eye

Kind of creepy and recherche

right next to to the cops

Here comes my bus

La Pena

 continues its trajectory

way over the top

Political placards

line the gutter

after an election

Here comes that big zany

cannabis dispensary

Specializing in the Marley brand

They give free pre-rolls 

on your birthday

and are generally generous with

 less than tippity-top shelf herbs

Called CBCDs or something

it's known as the Aquaurium

and at least you roll up there

Stylish old poofter on the bus

I didn't want to trip his gaydar
You can sneak photos
because everyone ignores
smart-phone diddling

10 November 2016