Berkeley Winter Break

A strange hiatus

in strained times

in an estranged city



Let's have a look


An appreciable lack
of crowds and traffic
Busses and streets
 not over-crowded for once



A girl with proverbial
hair like honey


Across from the fenced-off
park downtown
The Berkeley Historical Society





Artifacts
of the original Psychedelic era
Spotlight on the Berkeley sound









Golden Gingko
on campus by the creek

The creek swollen

with rain at last

A virtual vision

a flashback to the creek

as it was in centuries past

or a precognition

of how it will again be

I headed off through the trees

to the vicinity of the art museum

But first

Fortune smiled and a girl

had a light for me blunty

It's wet and chilly today

but every January since I moved

to California I sigh with relief

when I hear how cold it is 

 in icy Massachusetts

where I'm from

Especially when it's

nine below zero

and it's 3 o'clock

in the afternoon

Ignore the pretentious

status seekers

arrogant grad stews

identity policians

 Take Berkeley

 as it is

When in Woodstock

do as Woodstocks do

Sophistication and

schizophrenia

can help

Like pearls

and a simple black dress

There's a slim

cadre of Communists

He's always up for it

Asian girls are passionate

Woman in the Dunes

I did a paper on the film

and the novel by Kobo Abe

One long Japanese 

When Harry Met Sally

psycho-delicatessen scene

A priest

caught in the act

From Tantric yoga

to countless celibate

 religious orders,

The orgasm,

to be or not to be

Same old

Samo

Everyone says they

have  a new idea

a throbbing eye-ball bulb

How few come true

No sitting on the fence

when it comes to

Net neutrality

Tear down

Trump's wall

Lenin is

gonna be Lenin

December 2017-January 2018