Saturday, August 19, 2017

The Grand Tour








The skull is the smiley face
of the 21st Century
mascot of our times









Where do all the hippies meet?
Grand Street
Grand Street

Scouting out last week's movie experience
a few days earlier
I toured my favorite end of the estuary
then examined Grand avenue
the first foreshadows of Fall seemed to fall
across the sunlight-saturated streetscape



Lake Merritt
bird sanctuary
 seen from boat landing




Where alabaster egrets
nest in the trees,
the perpetual motion
of life goes on






Love the out-of-doors
beware of the bees
trapped in windows







Exudation
 of amber




Onward,
Boulevardiers






Nearly the season of the skull



Merchants are
ahead of the game


The Day of the Dead
overshadows
even all hallowed
Hallowe'en








Who still dares to fly
seditious symbols
in a time of never-ending
war?






A reliquary of anachronism
an independent bookstore







Strike up the band
get with the program
sugar-coat your skull







Boot and Shoe Service
a trendy not inexpensive cafĂ©,
ironically retaining the name
of a former working class
establishment





Libertines need
spectacles
it seems



There's a frame shop


Wait
what does it say?


Well,
I never...
No wonder the guy
in the white T-shirt
looks so lonely







All because of this
tweeting anus






If that's really
the way you
feel about it 




What about us
a hip cat?
Historic friend
of the pussy?



He just don't know
wrong from right
just like an alley cat








Signs of a classy place




Animal Science




 
Here's the real alley
next to the Alley






Ultimate cool



Last laugh's
on us


I am not your
beagle



Build a wall




GOP animal



No gratuitous
fondling
allowed





Survival
of the leanest


 oblique


stones in my
pass way






Gang's all here
right across from
Walden Pond

The same artist
has similar work
on Don Joyce's old
Negativland pad,
It's now over-muraled and
Don's gone to his reward
two years ago





Perhaps a coffee
for old time's sake




This sign's so old
It has the alphabet
from the Hobbit
paperback cover


Fifty years
of the psychedelic blues


Whether you are black
or you are white
let's all unite


           Hugh Mundell











August 2017








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