Traveling lady
always dressed in white
tell me Mam where'd
you spend last night
The Blues
nothing but a feeling
here's to all the noble
and struggling people
of Oakland
Bodybuilders shy away
from this rainy day
There was just a big fire claiming
36 lives in a converted where-house
a few miles away in this direction,
Young people desperate for a toe-hold
in the SF bay area
packed-in for dangerous living
Tall gal from the vintage store
poses her friends for a photo
modeling sneakers
Piedmont avenue
I see her on bus all over town
dressed in white outfits and heels
and white bags of spare clothes
We've spoken, she was educated
and charming and like myself
a loner content in her own company
A sprawling new shopping center
mushroomed up where a dormant place
long stood empty
Amid the golf course
and the graves
Rockridge
undergoing furious
reconstruction
Farther along Pleasant Valley
land reclaimed for organic farming
A quixotic gesture
for survival
against the relentless
automobile traffic
The facades of the past
dissolve in the carbonized
atmosphere
whimsical coral reefs go
the way of the sunken chest
October 2016
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