Trains on the Shoreline

 Oakland primates

round here

Two trains

two railroad tracks

one going

other one coming back

click clack click clack

Freight trains

take forever

 Down by the estuary

 lots of activity

 The Ferry comes and goes

 Sail and foot traffic

 on the water

 A sail boat passes by

without sails

 On its way 

to Fantasyland

 Keeping it real

 with castles in the clouds

 A great nation

 Who says it ain't?

We're still a melting pot

in a wax museum

 The blacks, the whites

 Room for the Mexicans too

 Oakland

know theyself

 Heading home

 Organic vegetable stand

too hot today at 

the Farmer's Market

 

 Tell me about it,

could write the screenplay:

I  Married a 

Transylvanian Yenta

 RAY 

carrying his parasol today

 Later 

 Hottest night of the year

 After nine I sat 

out on the corner

of Clay and Ninth,
coolness floated my way
in from the gate and the bay

Until the clock said

it was time for bed

September 2016