Certain details recall for me the actual old Oakland
The one I first encountered thirty-five years ago
This has been here for a while now,
what one sees everyday becomes sacred
The languorous lumbering lakeside
Across the water,
into the weeds
The vicinity of the lake
Unstable and subject to turbulence
Oakland,
Spleen and ideal
Modern urban center
With reverberation from Tobacco Road
Terminus,
The epic of Pacific Coast culture
Gets dark early,
A little chilly out
Nice night for a movie
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