Boschean Limbs: The Month

If you wrote up the facts just as they are

and could send it back in time

into recent history through a wormhole

Everyone who read it would have said,

That could never happen

All the nightmares came today

and it looks as though they're here to stay

 

The police were pensiveand quiet

yet they quietly turned out in full force

for every demo every march

The Mayor says that there was no vandalism

at the Women's March

Just this bench where the old and the disabled

wait for the infrequent 11 bus

at Harrison and Grand,

but you can't control those

with no impulse control

Over in Berkeley rebuilding takes place

 

First Congregational church

 that burned last year,

I've attended scores of classical

 and early music performances there

I was an eye-witness

on a passing bus

on my way to the cannabis dispensary

walked down street to see billowing smoke

as the cops were erecting the barriers

Token Socialist hero

of an all but defeated democracy

Boy Scouts

Some go berserk

 

Some guys toke too much

but who can blame them?

Who are these assholes?

Oh, HOODSLAM

blood sport and as such

patriotic

Great pains are taken

to get skin tone just right

I only know this cat

cause I'm also called

Stephen

You better get some Sherbert, Herbert

And take long walks

keep your eyes open for wee people