Weird Tales Hit Crown Beach

Based on a True Story

 

Just another diamond day,

Just a blade of grass,

 1.

The Insular Beach

Alameda a place that time forgot,

Suggests as well a time that land forgot,

The miraculous flight of a fisher

The miracle of a boy wading in the tide

Weird island or isthmus,

Afterthought of the Oakland estuary,

Yet you can board a board and paddle 

Out the Golden Gate all the way to Maui

 Twenty-first century surf shop

 Rent anything you can ride 

That isn't motorized

Kite-boarding rocks the ho-daddy haircut,

Those girls were doing Butoh I think

Pulled over at a table for a very basic aquatic picnic,
Sardines, whole rye pumpernickel with almond butter,
A little jar of brandy

As I was capturing the preceding image,
A veritable Luftwaffe of honking,
Goose-stepping goose flesh
Hurled past only a few feet over my head






2.
The Enigmatic Incident

 What is this?

Found earth art brute?

 Wait, it's some sort of a sordid pagan shrine...

Cthulhu !!!

The little girl with powder blue flip-flops

Who went missing...

 

CAUTION,

 Back way slowly

 

 Ee-yikes!

 What are these things???

Scores of them...

 One of them may have stung my foot,

Lost focus... had to sit down in the sand,

I felt like I was sitting on top of a washing machine,
I must have fallen asleep

 3.

Embryonic Aftermath 

 It was later the same day,

,
The unfamiliar life forms were no where in sight,
The effigy was gone too, washed away I suppose,

Few people remained

Their eyes looked changed

 I walked back the entire length of the beach

To a less windy spot where I had stopped to smoke,

I must have dropped the roach but there it still was

 I began to feel at home in my skin again,

The world regained its grace

 Downtown again,

The banality seemed to conceal something

Then I was hurtling through a tunnel

Back under the estuary

Like a sequence from 2001

Gonna take you down to Funkytown

15 July 2015