Urban Yuletide
Psycho-geography
Psycho-geography
of Oakland Center
The most Christmas sound heard today
Bells tolling from the old time tower
From 8th to 18th and back
on an aleatory quest for rolling papers
An eye open for Holiday eye-candy
City Center somber & deserted
Corporate Christmas
predominates
Incandescent empty space
Pandemic measures drag on
Line for vaccinations on Xmas Eve
Not to be too macabre about it
Squad car blinking
outside an eldritch hotel
Must be Santa
Mural on the windowless back wall of a building
no doubt were another edifice once stood
It used to be of a white knight first-responder
I suppose it changes periodically
Front of the same groovy building
like many of them-- occupied by lawyers
Street tree sky clouds chandelier window
Land of ice and even snow
Blade runners
People's Republic of Oakland
The Sharks
local mob
Mural of extravagant hands
Screen memory
Weird world in here
Weird through and through
inside and out
Boarded-up theater
That's Oakland for you
In my naivete
I await a renaissance
This wasn't always Stinky...
Must have changed hands
Here's a humble soul showing good cheer
A swanky uptown tavern
A delightful and dainty display
Must be a jewelry store or some such
Nothing says Noel
like a study pair of cruel shoes
It's a refined dildo and porn emporium
Well I'll be
It's a spiritual thing--
yoga and yabyum
yoni and lingam
the whole jewel in the lotus
So Ray comes full circle
Scored 3 packs of my preferred rolling papers
gave a guy spare change
Scored 3 packs of my preferred rolling papers
gave a guy spare change
Smoked along my route
And finished my last block home
in a brief cloudburst
And finished my last block home
in a brief cloudburst
24 December 2021
