The Weekend at a Clip

Acid incense and balloons

(without the LSD or the incense)

Lots of cosmic debris in the atmosphere

the Flaneur plays it cool




The Patina of Time

Too long indoors

underneath the lamp

With my carafe

and my giraffe

Time for a wee hejira

I go out I go out

The dogs bark

but the caravan

moves on

Saturday

Better jump down a manhole

light yourself a candle

Appearance of new rocks

perpetually wet

A tad creepy

Some sort of  stickiness

to the touch

varnished in place

This is "Joey"

says he can't be

a white supremacist

because he identifies

as "Japanese-American"

(one euro, one Japanese parent)

He and the imbeciles

of his alt-right social media group

 held-up  San Francisco by getting a permit

to rally on Chrissie field

When thousands vowed to show up

they announced they'd have instead

a "press conference" at Alamo Square,

The cops put a fence around it

as Mayor Lee continued to denounce

them as a hate group,

This schmuck ran around

popping up on Facebook

mis-representing free speech

and hiding from the people

he challenged to a fight,

Think of the money they cost the City

in their moronic attempt to disrupt

"Pelosi country"

Saturday Night

Chinatown fair 10PM

deserted at night

Bulbous amusements

at rest

Seagull

on a pirate ship

looks toward the estuary

Lights change hue

on another dormant ride

Graffiti gate

changes hues

The rat race

takes a brief

breather

Ought stash and budget depleted

I managed an cannabis-infused

olive oil high just by

applying the oil to containers

that had held the super-potent herb

I think the mind

in strengthened

by occasionally letting go

of the strings

of rationality

4.

Atypical Sunday Outing

The class war, race war

and stealth attempts on decency

continued today over in Berkeley

This "free speech" rally was

self-identified as a drive

to deny free speech to Marxists,

The cowards hid behind police protection

as over 7,000 people showed up to disagree,

Then the Black Bloc showed up

leaped over the fence around their playground

and proceeded to kick large ugly ass

forcing the alt-righters from the park

and chasing them down the street

As a local musical genius wrote,

There's a bad moon on the rise

A tagger bombed the XO location

BART will obliterate it very promptly,

This artist's work has figured

in two previous Flaneur posts

by co-inky-dink

Down to the pleasant breezes

of the Port and the Square

on a day quite hotter than usual

but my euphoria deficit

makes it less than interesting today

Lo and behold

I look over at a little pier

and see two shiny objects

that turn out to be two swift

vape pens loaded with hash oil

that someone abandoned

O happy days

The Night Light

a club specializing in garage rock

As I passed it I noted this

reflective Marines decal on a van

then spied this dashing mannequin

A statement of exactly what

I know not but I sort of dug it

especially the Prince shirt,

I think it was to be used as

a stage prop by a band

unloading their van,

One of these cats watched me

 take these shots with smile

than gave me his sincere thumbs up,

Like my late older brother once said,

You're still like a kid,

I replied that I

just never joined

the other side

Semper fi

y'all

Sometimes you just got to

leave your trobles on the doorstep

and row row row your boat

                                                         25-26 August 2017