Ice Ice Baby

On balmy Lincoln's birthdays

 the Flaneur finds somewhere to cool his head

The every-day erotic uncanny.
pervades

Across the street from the flowering trees

Young cat drives his guitar in modal fashion

Berkeley Community Theater

Part of the high school complex where I saw shows by

 Lou Reed, Joan Baez, Bo Diddley, Robert Plant, 

and the first US appearance of  the legendary Clash,

Other historic concerts include Dylan and the Hawks

David Bowie's final local show in 2002 and

The Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley film concert

I even got a pranam from the Dali Lama at the stage door

The Magnes museum

Judaica... I've never visited...

Are Goyim welcome to convert?

Secular icons abound

The Gaia building

A colossal municipal art hornswoggle

Full of goddess baloney

There has been a Mexican restaurant here

Since the land belonged to Spain

This is the full-of-itself

Brower center

Hub of environmental do-gooder 

hypocrisy

The lobbyist's lobby

This represents the Burroughsian centipede

At the heart of things

Swept under the rug

A ghost ship frozen on its voyage

Anywhere out of this world

The world of

Vanishing Ice

Pendulous icicles are like

Stalactites in a crevasse,

Back in the day

Ice caps, glaciers, rich cold seas,

Today it goes without mention,

An Armageddon of ice loss

Occurs as we speak

Surrealism at the end of days

The stylized olden days of humanity,

Fleshy earth paintings

A school I'd discovered in Canada's

Great White North

A putrescent garden

Decaying corpse of what once was

Human attempt to melt a glacier

using their collective body temperature

An inescapable conclusion

Forebodes

Let it come down

Meanwhile I while away my biological life

Embedded in flowering clover

Nourished on a diet of plants

Alive, outdoors, under the life-giving sky,
Nothing left but the recording

12 February 2016