The Berkeley Beat: STREET

Remember these poet cats? 

An American Ur Flaneur

and a Beat Generation update

The Berkeley Flaneur? 

or the Oakland Clochard?

 San Francisco dandy as well

The Flaneur marches on

All time is one time

1.
Downtime Downtown

Fun for some,

games for all

Cuddle fish

I can dig it

King of Flaneurs,

Man you should seen them

kicking Edgar Allen Poe,

A Lovecraft phantasmagoria

come true

Young men have apparently

set up a medical marijuana

authorization table

Cop lady had a few questions

for these cannabis humanitarians,

A first for Berkland

2.

Ashby Corridor

A room for adolescents

Strange mask in the library

Primitive decorative figure with drum

Hall of mirrors

Mama used to send us to the mirror man

Come home with a pocketful of spangles

Never really knew 

what to make of it

A survival from Berkeley's 

storybook past

Chocolate chip building

and marshmallow sky

Switzerland or 

mountainous Hungary

Ethnicity eludes the finger

Always figured it was outdoorsy stuff

mountain goats or ski bunnies,

Less traveled these days perhaps

A holy moment

Washingtown

looking stately as well

I've known one or two Yemenies,

One was extremist like Osama,

Other was at an Ira Cohen art show

Pigeon fossil sidewalk

June 2016