View from the nexus of
Chinatown, Old Oakland, Downtown
and West Oakland
Chinatown official begins at Broadway
Bordertown
The streetlights are not coming on
across 8th Street
across 8th Street
Navel gazing
amid the frenzy
amid the frenzy
It's all rather inscrutable
Thriving business in rundown buildings
O Generous Goddess
fork it over
As opposed to the joy of non
Game of skill
Tawdry glamour trumps taste
Abstract tendencies
Optical taffy
Graffiti in pre-fab fossil form
More optometrists per square mile
Sidewalk produce markets
Spooky Chinoiserie
Woman of mystery
Interstices of urban landscape
More spooky altars
Sign of the Headless Stewardess
Lacerated posters
Buddhism carved in stone
Former neighborhood Catholic church
my Chinese American friend Chester attended as a kid
Flower district remnants
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Halloween sky over 9th Street
as seen from Chinatown
With lunar stealth Chinatown slips
into darkness
into darkness
Summer-Fall 2021
