The Difference a Day Makes

I had already heard 

on KPFA noon news headlines

before I left the house

Nice to feel something lifted from one's shoulders

I hit the pavement on Center street

and thought I'd take another look

at the show at the Arts Passage

I dig Aina's work

A Pan-African

universe

This work is quite attractive

To the Sahara,

Let's get lost

I've long been a Berber at heart

Listening to the music of North Africa

 Time to get my Buddha feet

back on the Dharmapada

Around the corner to Milvia Street...

 Oh bang!

 It looks rather stained

Despite a steam-cleaning

 a good scrubbing

needed all around

I was embarassed that when

the President of Ireland came

To visit the balcony death shrine

He saw this sad blight as well,

Berkeley's mayor is bizarre

 I hope the mezoid security guards

don't become a fixture as a result

There's always money for more security,

alas



When I went inside
I knew all the clerks
I theatrically pronounced,
"It looks so clean and bright today...
What could be different?
Oh yeah, they got rid
of that hobo jungle out there"

Customers and staff
shared the laugh.

Balances 

just like a mattress

on a bottle of wine

12 April 2016

 Postal Police mean business



Epilogue

This whole situation was that desperate and opportunistic
 indigent people took advantage of the legitimate protest
to a proposed sale of the the Berkeley central post office.
They turned a public space into a homeless camp,
no real political activity,
Just festering in secretive tents eagerly accepting
hand-outs of food and dollar bills
Debris garbage and human waste ensued







Accept all transience
Take refuge on the Dharma way

 15, 13 April 2016