Tree-Lighting
7 December 2017
The annual event augented this year
by a fantastic light show
projected from within
the Conservatory of Flowers
And a Winter Carnival midway
through the pitch black
and chilly park
Where Haight Ashbury
meets the Park
Xmas fantasia abound
New Years babies
fill the void
left by the departed
All about the high life
for the affluent
Stanyon Street
and other sorrows
Tour buses still point out
hippie stragglers
The big trees
of Golden Gate Park
a storybook experience
every time
Actually down
with a sharp cold but
I don't want to stay home
and be all hang dog,
Events happen once
Tired of waiting
A fire truck showed up
with lights flashing
and Santa Claus got out
I slid into the mid-way
Snow
in Golden Gate Park!
Santa's Little Helper
can't see me
outside his plastic tent
A strange classroom
under the night sky
On to the Conservatory
of Flowers
I rested alone
sitting on a fallen tree
out behind it for a half hour
A stage appeared out of the
cold darkness
of interstellar space
Just then the Conservatory
came to life
with accompanying ambient music
welling from the stage behind me
adding to the other-worldy effect
I had to get close
Like a Wedgewood figment
of my imagination
Moody blue
hallucinogenic
threshold
A molten colored house
for the Flower Children
50 years after
the Summer of Love
I think I was peaking
right about now
The kids seem to revert
to an atavistic choreography
it got more and more unreal
I surrendered to the dream
and lost my ability
in the darkness
to capture anymore images
The tree is lit
what an installation
what an environment
Wow
I wish I had cannabis chocolate
for everyone
Santa hat High School band
a romantic scenario perhaps
Everybody is in
an altered state
of consciousness
A fast Fulton street bus
and I'm down at the Civic Center
Outside the Asian museum
An arresting visage indeed
The usual Taiko squad
to split your eardrums
A Blue Meanie Leviathan
eye candy in excelsis
City Hall certainly
had it's red white and blue
balls out too
Mayor Lee
we hardly knew ye
7 December 2017
