Hot Spell Goes into Labor Day

A strange light tints the

sky as clouds move in mitigating

the atmospheric temperatures

the shore on a day without

bright sunshine

Alameda bound

100 years of banking

 A classy joint

no doubt

 Got a big Prince

fancy dress party coming up

So dig out your glad rags

from your psychedelic storage space

This boots are made for walking

 Let's

Familiar crowd

The tide is high

quite high

 The submarine walkway

is really underwater

today

I want to be on the same page

For the first time

I have to quit my attempt

to make it all the way,

If I was nude or wearing a suit

it would have been mine,

my pants are only rolled up so high

and I have to walk backward on tip toes

to avoid getting wet

which I somehow manage to do

Pieces on a chessboard

Hope I'm not letting

anyone down

but I'm throwing in the towel

After my usual marine lunch

at a picnic table,

sweet cold drops of rain

 I sheltered under a thick pine

it was splendid really

after all the heat and glare

Deserted state building
in Summer






What could be more patriotic

than a discarded can of Bud?

 

But they changed the name

to America, a subtle pitch:

US AMERICA

And they added a quote from

Woody Guthrie's

This Land Is Your Land

to their corporate product label

Irony is thick this labor day

Industrial sculpture garden

near crab cove

A crucial workplace

no labor in force

we salute them today

Used to look over at

the soft serve ice cream place

now gone

 The cool low-rent pads of

the twentieth century

are going going gone

The Third Dimension

in situ

Touch me not

Pussy willow

Always thirsty

Got that

silent Brexit

grin on his face

This is a town

that wets its whistle

Ye olde ale hole

in sidewalk

One's last forlorn

99 cents store

Don't take any

 wooden nickels

A flag for every pole

This country has its panties

in a tangle

Secrets in its attic

skeletons in its closet

Some mild sun

toward the end of day

Much was written in the sky


Starting to get dark
earlier

Son it will be time

for Trick-or-Treat

4 September 2017