My Weekend versus The Superbore

 "Tell them a hookah-smoking caterpillar

has given you the call"

 RIP Paul Kantner 

Whom I saw perform back in the peak years

And sat tables with at the Old Waldorf where

He alone of the SF Sound band-members

 Turned up for new wave shows like the Brains

"Money Changes Everything", but not Paul Kantner

  In loyalty to their kind

They cannot tolerate our minds,

In loyalty to our kind

We cannot tolerate their obstruction

 

The Flaneur hikes and climbs,

he plays no team sports, 

attends no games, and watches no sports TV

He considers himself a sportsman

Unlike the human bean-bags who sit and consume calories

While they consume sports media and sports merch

And never play sports themselves

The B stands for Beast machine

 Having the stupid-bowl in towns surrounding us

Seems to attract macho manifestations

 1.

Saturday in Berkland

 Well, Happy Chinese New Year,

Mardi Gras 2016 and Saint Valentine's Day

To you too, Bride of Frankenstein

 We're through the Looking Glass now,
My dears

 Winter's gone

Spring is near

 Let's follow Alice

Down the rabbit's hole

 

The afternoon wore on

Wonderland,
Spring is here 

Winter is gone

And we're all mad as hatters

A new green world

 Here in toon town

 2.

Sunday in Oakland

The Port was idyllic in seventy degree sunshine

And there were but a few soulful souls in sight






No one on the Potomac





The Japanese jazz club
An unpopulated island
 this afternoon






A door to the past ever ajar

 The old Oakland train station

Everyone's gone to the moon

 Deserted,

Ghost town  lovers

I came back down to the Jack London theater after dark

After a zucchini, broccoli, carrot, and onion, and cheese omelet

With fried sweet potato coins

and some whole-wheat Nan

The film I saw was "The Revenant" 

Sort of a B-movie revenge plot with

Superfluous spirits and dreams

Mainly a survival-in-extremis classic

With utterly beautiful landscape cinematography

And the bear attack which made me hide my eyes

Thrilling film, but it leaves one a bit sad

4-5 February 2016