The Story of O

Paradox

Random recent rambling

around town

1.
Uptown/Downtown

Feel like I did as I child,

Old folks and cannabis 

a new mural

 Shortly after 4:20 PM

20 April 2016

 Man with dyed hair 

and pink flamingo shirt

 

 Civilization loomed

over us all

 

 I saw Mephistopheles 

in the clouds

 .

The new chihuahua,
Then they get tired of them
and its like Dachaund
all over again

2.

Ye Olde Oklande

 

 A moment's bright respite

in the oldest part of town

I'll take a magnum of

Mysterium

Meet me at

endgame

 Abhorrent ancients persist

in popular mythology

as harmless cartoons

 An undergarment

It's called a banana hammock,

sort of a cod piece to stay warm

and enhance one's profile

 Goes well with this
battered Bat bike,

Two people mount it

to hurl through traffic

At sundown

 the sky got crowded

 3.
The peoples' shard garden

Thursday was a portentous day,

At 10AM I heard on the radio
The body of an adult male
was removed from Paisley Park

At 11AM the radio said

 Prince had been found dead

I love to sit

 in a vegetable garden,

Note US and MacDonald's flags 

in the ironic distance

Rainbow shard in bed
Health is life

It's a place I like to be

But I don't salute 

any flag

Last week I said to myself

It's the type of place

where abandoned gas stations

stay abandoned

Then this week,
gone

4.
Earth Day

Lakeside park

You wouldn't say

uncloudy day

Roses play ring

Around the bandstand

After it rains

The quiet crows in the oaks

don't seem to mind

I join them in solidarity

in the enchanted trees,

in the fairy tunnel underneath

The flowering oaks

in Springtime,

Our emblematic tree

 The clouds were magnificent

 They spoke to me

Time comes to move on

nevertheless

I took the first exit
home

 A day's vastness
culminating in cumulus clouds,
hard to keep inside

 Gold threshold in purple clouds,

for Prince

 

None of you
stand so tall,
Pink moon

gonna get you all

 Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink,

Pink moon

April 2016