Cornball Fourth of July

 

Close to home
on Independence Day

Intense sunlight coupled with cool breezy air

Summer in the Northern Temperate Zone
what we call grooving
 on the most essentially traditional
 patriotic holiday

Corny enough for you

Yankee cheese doodle
dandy?

It's a steady cool

repose outside the wind

the balance we seek in the sun

Shows President Gerald Ford's

imaginary exit wound

The President's yacht itself

The only President that matters

Modern Nautical Complexity 

intervenes

Yet how continuous

the Fourth of July parade

really seems to be

Getting ready one's kite

Nice hues

I'm as color-directed

as a honey bee

Fireworks on ice

 There is the archetype

The marine fog that

 lingers visibly across the Bay

Still clinging to Twin Peaks

at two in the afternoon

Remarkable shirt on this guy

embroidered purple should cross

the whole thing dipped

in left-over dye

Let's see where he's headed

To Scott's?

Maybe the cruisey beach benches

A little fenced in area

under the towering palms

Exotic hen in a pen

Little girls love their llamas

Kids dig kid goats special

I read that a lamb can

calm a rampaging elephant

Hula-hooping in indigo tights

fun you can scream on

Authentic

Native American hoops

in repose

can fascinate as well

First inhabitants
gave the world corn

Mucho arroz no mutato

Posted prohibition:

fireworks of all kinds

 no pyrotechnics after dark

Makes for a quiet 

old-fashioned Fourth

Doctor Solaris,

as if on cue,

What's he peddling now?

Potted garden 

overhangs

A peacefulpopulace

A children's magician 

a few steps ahead

of his audience

Tropical Hot Dog Night

title courtesy of

 Captain Beefheart

Let Jolly Roger fly

Everybody's rocking their flag today

Well, what do we have here?

Why that snake oil-hustling

varmint

It's Doctor Solaris' cabin

and he's not around

Maybe I can slip inside unnoticed

Pry into the secrets of trade

so to speak

I don't scare easy....

Just then he rolled up

on his three-wheeled

cabinet of wonders

Nonchalance,

I don't want to get

caught up n his act

Become like one of his

stomach-turning

oddities

 

So I pivot and  salute the flag

at the First and Last Chance Saloon

Wow

a perfectly restored Buick

NOIRMOBILE

San Francisco

our neighbor

not so far away

Up here I have my typical

marine sardine lunch with pumpernickel

Brandy and a blend,

Midnight and Candy Jack

Small crowds are nicer

Oakland couple celebrates with baby
She wore a cool flag chapeau

Doctor Solaris attracted

quite a large crowd

himself

GOOD TIME 

SUNSHINE

I could sneak a peak
around the back
while he's busy

but I feel like

I'm being watched

GOOD TIME 

SUNSHINE

 By this  point

I was taking photos of photos

The Fence Project

original works by Oakland

photographers

 Time for me to go wide

and bid Jack London

a blissful tide

Farewell to Jack London

and good-bye to the Square

 So a festive salute

to the United States of America

240 years old

Great God Almighty

He was the poor man's friend,

 Jesse Winchester on the radio

I've got my own

 mystic doorway

to go through

4 July 2016