Thursday, February 24, 2022

The East Bay Idler

 

 

 

   The East Bay Idler


 

 
Pink Moon Quest

 

 
Trees in Downtown Berkeley Park
on a crystalline day 

 

 
So central and busy
for much of my history in Berkeley
Today it seemed like a forlorn island 
where a few lost souls take refuge


 
Berkeley high school let out
and things livened a bit
skateboards echoed through the park




Down the Campus Pathway


 
 The landscape is more becoming
with less gardening going on
 
 

 
A perfect spot for an idle at 4:20 
The air is cool but the sun is strong
and the wind is deflected
 
 

 
Down through campus
familiar sights steaming away 
Despite everything so
irreversibly altered in the past few years
 

 
Old arboreal acquaintances 

 

 
Among the oakwood trees 
people are still rather scarce
 
 

 
 Iranian restaurant window
glass globe arabesque
 
 

 
Orderly Chinese internet cafe 
Predominant social life in Berkeley
in the 2020s
 
 

 
Score!
Everyone is happy
Everyone is laughing 
Pink Moon Indica 31% thc
from Seth Rogen's operation
Just in time for the 50th anniversary
of the release of Nick Drake's album
Pink Moon




 
 Tiger balming
 
 

 
Doorway in Chinatown
Make-shift cartoons on riot boards 
with a New Year good luck packet attached
Inscrutable
 

 
Enigmatic vacant lot in Chinatown
No campers ever breach the cyclone fence
Never offered for sale
I'd like to visit its hermetic tranquillity
 
 

 
Formerly rumored to have been 
a nefarious cop bar
 
 

 
Admirable building actually
 with blood on the floor perhaps


 
 Maybe is just an ordinary place these days
 

 
 End point is as usual
The Estuary
Back sail & odd new yellow building
on the Alameda side
& tat bizarre tank-like structure
 
 
 
 

 
Cold weather came next day  




Afro-gallery


 
In memory of
Betty Davis
Muse of Miles
 
 

 
 Voodoo Mouse
 
 

 
 Ummagumma

 


First they came for Basquiat
Look out, Jasper Johns!






 

 
Year of the Tiger 
every Chinese person
needs to be one these days
in this fierce locale
 
 
 

 
No takers at the picnic table this chilly day
a welcome smoke spot nonetheless--
sunshine and little wind
 
 

 
It's good old Old Oakland
in late Winter
 
 
 

 
Shadows of bare trees 
on 8th Street 
Solitude & mindfullness
on my afternoon walk



 
Nothing scares me
I live in West Oakland 
(barely West Oakland) 

 

 
Ye old matchstick pile
disappeared over New Year
So as industrial as ever
I resume building my mound
 
 

 
 They say, 
get rich or die tryin 
I opted out
 
 
 
 
Down here again 
dressed for chilly weather
 
 

 
Mount Tamalpais
ever thus
 

 
Shadows lengthen
on the Ferry Landing lawn
the urge for going
makes itself felt


 
 Network of trees and shadows
I move within
 

 
TOKYO!
I'm guessing
 
 
 
 


Bookstore window in passing
always on the road




Cold all week
hail stones even
snow on the elevations




February 2022











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