Today's Walk

 

Oakland reveals itself

What I witnessed today

Helicopters patrol

the castles burning

 

Know what the flags

with leaves and pumas

are all about now

 

Oakland's new Panthers

 

Native are restless

tribal tom-toms underneath

get it from the drum

 

A little ominous actually

an objective observer

might think

  

(These two image captures

are from the other night

 

Tendency

toward lawlessness

rationalizes authoritarian

response

 

Don't they know

we're in a time

of Biblical prophecy

of Mosaic Law?

 

USA's blood and treasure

must serve as a Golem

To protect our greatest ally

in the Holyland

 

Meanwhile

in Chinatown

 

Everything is

out in the open

 

 

Including

the kitchen sinks

 Chinese strategic thinking

is shedding sawdust

 

China just built

a massive railway

into Iran

 

Watch out

for sharp tails

the return momentum

of war-mongering

 

 

The tragedy of the commons

devoid of  the commoners

 

Central Post Office

part of a ghostly ambiance

in broad daylight

 

 

Institutions

that extend democratic

opportunity under slow

attritions

 

 

All our Cities

lie in dust

the Post office is being stolen

the Public schools starved

 

Wildlife will reclaim

our civic architecture

until they choke

on our exhaust

 

Sometimes trees

mistaken for dead

can come back to life

 

 

 

Interesting times

as shards of empire

come tumbling

around out ears

 

 

 

An inevitable

deconstruction

of toxic constructs

 

Bio-lucient

cinder blocks

The living world

hits a wall

 

 

 

 

 

17 May 2018