Oakland
sometimes it just seems like it's
More mendacious
miserably capitalistic
and downright undemocratic
everyday
They shut down the streets
we use every day
at the flash of a bank roll
Purely commercial
Marketing uber alles
The entirety of tenth street
and old Oakland privatized again
This happens often
Gentrification
is an indictment
of those individuals
Moving into areas
where white people
used to fear to tread
They certainly had some elbow room
between the leadership tables
Continual appropriation of public streets
for public commercial affairs
is quite another thing,
But who wants to be a naysayer
not me
Shine on, you crazy diamond
We have free trade
foreign manufacturers
to supply every need
Pleasure palace opportunities
on offer
You'll never guess who I ran into,
The bride of Charles Laughton,
looking fresh
Like she just come from church
Urban obsolence
in severe turn-around
The hour that the ship comes in
Words that are used for
to get the ship confused,
will not be understood
after spoken
And like Pharoah's tribe
they'll be drowned in the tide,
And be buried on the botton
of the ocean
Ain't no retrumplicans
Just octopi and pelicans
Have no fear for atomic energy
None of them can stop the time
And sell it back to you
We over in cartoon land now
The week of
Friday the 13th, May 2016
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