Chill Sunday Outing

Since it's never really

that cold here

a drop in temperature

feels arctic

the candle gutters out

Hell Night

Monday was even colder

29, 30 October 2017

Insane KKKlown President (mail art)

October 2017

Sugar Zombie (mail art)

October 2017

Sightseeing Bus Tour II, Ramble On

The feminine principal
in Berkeley


The most extraordinary flower

 a chance encounter

 a beautiful mutation

One solid red petal,
none of the other examples
had anything like it

We are all lost

 Until we find
our guru




I could use a guru
and a snug cottage
with a few trees

Like this gem behind
the old city hall

 Thought I saw something move

Now I don't see it

There something there
some dark shape

I feel a distinct
evil presence




Something wicked this way comes

From the bus window
a tattered poster
of a tatty poseur
Billionairess
out to gut public schools


Knobby trees

These line up along
the hill on Linda street
Oakland

Cozy at home at last

Halloween cupcakes for tea

an early tick or trick

 Take a look
at the funny pages
 and relax

Grotesque
Canadian cupcake

27 October 2017

Sightseeing Bus Tour I, Wicked Week

Rapid eye movement

memory and association

in moments going past

fly-casting through

crystal spectacles


1.

Scintillating

Alameda

old California

I take the beach head

Did you hear a noise

at the window?

Go to sleep

Strange auguries

in the sunset clouds

2.

Morning trees

and shadow

still hot

make a pot of pinto beans

nevertheless

Blessed crepuscular

 shift in the heat

Then go out at night

So many streets

crossed on my way

Went to see someone in Berkeley

an older cat I know

we spent an hour on his rooftop

with some most excellent sativa

Then in a euphoric twilight zone

I descended again to walk

to a bus stop

This cleverly expressive

street sign fence

on MLK and Dwight

Then the wandering 12 bus

over Piedmont hill and dale

whistling past the graveyard

To deboard at last

in Old Oakland

 near home

Someone has left

all the lights on

in empty rooms

3.

Elmwood drive-by

Traditionally hot afternoon 

on the last Friday

before Halloween

There's the spooky balloon shop

Toys and treats

masks and adornment

roll up to holiday town

Sweet dreams

are made of this

Who am I to disagree?

Travel the world

and the seven seas

Everybody's

looking for something

oh-oh-oh-oh

hey hey hey yeah

Miss Thang

she brang the

 armor-plated sexy

(go to part two)

224-27 October 2017