28 July Part One

Almost always a stellar day in mid-summer

Birthday to Marcel Duchamp, Jackie Kennedy

and your RAYness

The Flaneur has an epic walk-about
Replete with art, history
and urban psycho-geography

RAY

all muscle

not bald

It started with a sunny tour

of 9th street

Chinatown

Cathedral style

of the vanished

Euro-Oakland

Now Chinese real estate

I'm headed to the Lake Merritt BART

to obtain my senior discount CLIPPER

by providing evidence of my age

via my new Senior State ID

 from the otherwise

notoriously parsimonious DMV

Onward

Entering the magic lantern

Come along

We'll leave breadcrumbs

to find our way out again

Free form blackboard

on the way in

A happy day with mainly kids

They watched me and dug my  tag

several wished me happy birthday

Courtyard of the clunky

sculptural eyesores

I jest

An esteemed symbol of old

originally Ban-the-bomb

then universal peace sign

Peace signs on earth

disappear

No justice

no peace

no unfair status quo

The course of history

pattern of darkness and light

I follows the money

as they say

The Gold Rush

Replica of a sluice

panic for gold

Dark as a dungeon

way down in a mine

narrow as a grave

A rough-cut life

leading to San Francisco

and Oakland

Provided you strike it rich

The original

Fool's Gold

Now accepting

Junk bonds

liar's loans

CDOs

Cool quiet and deserted

in the summertime

 forenoon

Petrified wood

 

That's what she said

Ideal for what I had in mind

Sardines a robust bread

 ice water and brandy

raisins

People trickled in

in a delightful scene of greenness

A one-year old walked by me

colorful threads and shades

Cutest thing in the world

I told her smiley Mom

There's that monstrous carp

He sees me

 

Have you got any food?

As menacing as a dog

wouldn't want to fall in

After eating and brandy

and the two puffs of top shelf

Drowsy shadows grow sensuous

Too much mirror in the bathroom

RAY means business today

his many lifetimes

 stretch out behind him

He thinks his way

into a theater of the future

Where all is dualistic

all light sources are doubled

Wrinkled and reflective

Bacterial life

thermal pods

Schools of fish swim by

overhead

 A strange overlord

emerges

the fish migrate

across his chest

Branches of seaweed

 scratch at the window

Volcanic visera

deep in the bowels

of earth

I find myself

elsewhere

On a distant shore

Stumbling over

Anthropomorhic

landscape based art

 

Travelling

I dream of an eternal return

familiar mystery

Chamber of

ectoplasmic photography

Massive artifacts

of wealth and power

inherent ugliness

grandiose kitsch

Mountains and rivers

without end

Codex

Most political art here today

seems to deal with race

White people ain't all bad
that's a surfboard

 Hard to convince some people of that

The Black woman

(who thinks she)

is God

Meret Oppenheim

primordial soup bowl

campy erotica

Time to rattle me bones

and move on

Stay in touch

Part Two:

late afternoon and evening

was even groovier

28 July 2017