Circling Berkeley, Orbiting October

Flaneurian gold!

This all Berkeley week on The Flaneur

a constant wrestling with the angels

guardian or fallen 

a seismograph of the Zeitgeist

Tune in turn on

and drop off,

Starts off slow

but ends in a car chase

1.
Coming in,
coming in

Rockridge

here comes a red truck

I happen to know

it's a liquor delivery truck

always busy,

always in demand

Everything in fact

seems to be turning red

Our understated foliage

and etc.

Don't tie up an animal

and then forget

 all about it

Makes a great

revenant

It's to die for

Ain't no rehab

in the afterlife

Dead Elvis

The greatest dead celebrity

of them all

The DOORS reunite

in heaven

There's that creepy kid again

The young ones can

smell your fear

Early Trick-or-Treats

Window in a medical scene

I was having a CT scan

had to drink a great lake

of water to take part

Painting on a utility box

2.

There there

my dear

University Avenue

Disney Halloween Time

RAY by the way

has never been to Disneyland

It seems we have become

sort of a banana republic

replete with full corruption

and a criminal tyrant

at the top

You can't stop us

so don't try

A floral scene upstreet

Nice colors

A quirky store

for those who like

that sort of thing

I provision there

myself on occasion

mainly I buy Finnish licorice

and dark dark chocolate

(prevents atrial fibrillation)

Nice relief shadows

a pleasant time of year

despite the widespread burning

just North of us

Smokey streets again today

Holiday traditions

observed here

a traditional tire store

Reverse side

of the window painting

a colorful abstract

Truth in advertising

It's not easy

being green

Watch out, Frankie

Somebody coming up

behind you

trying to catch up

Anyone Randy?

Anyone need a rubber?

Some kind of vulcanized

pillsbury dildo boy

Not to worry

he's huffing and puffing,

you're losing him

The road to

All Hallow's Eve

is all yours, baby

you got the key

to the highway

A sweet

20th century hold-over

hope it remains one

So do we

Circling back

through the old Southernmost Side

where I did long reside

They look snobby

and unhappy

Ghosts along Woolsey

as the day dims

Woolsey street

 redwood

Claremont

Time to fire up

the distress signal

We're in big trouble and

we need help

October 2017