One Day Heat Spell

Outside Berkeley High

Phil Lesh a graduate

 honored by a utility-box mural

All summer long the temperature 

has stayed on the cool side

August in San Francisco never got above 70 degrees F

and only hit 70 degrees once

This was after a cooler-than-normal July,

September is continuing in the same pattern,

Except for one day

last Wednesday the seventh

I saw a bank read-out at 89

probably close to the day's high in Oakland,

Then it got cool again the very next day

1.

 It's too damn hot

for a pumpkin latte!

 It's even too hot for beer!

 Hardly any breeze at all

in deserted Lakeside park

 Even the shorebirds

thought it was too hot,

Commerants were 

airing their wings 

I got too drowsy 

to take any more pictures

 2. 

 Look at this place

burnt-out 

broke-down palace

 The sky on the second floor




Bombed-out
garage
land

'cause when the Lord

 get ready

you got to move

September 2016