Immemorial Memorial Day 3

Gorgeous weather for the holiday

hot and cool in its bifurcated way

Crown Beach had a crowd

the reason for my remote perspective

 

I remember my departed family

and friends
 

 

Through a worm hole tunnel

to find myself on the other side

 of the looking glass

Webster street

this venerable oasis for Irishman

recently closed it's doors for good

 

Boulder walls

Don't build them like that anymore

not since the Flintstones were on TV

 

Boulder holder

Spin rack of vintage

PLAYBOY

Somehow the Beagles

got involved

 

A wish that they all

could be California girls

 

Like this little doll

her own mad marine scientist

for the moment

 

We who are no strangers

to underwater experience

 

And aware of our scene

fear no sea monsters

Teenagers chill

mesmerized by the motion

 

Wow

it's like he has a problem

 

Not me I doffed my boots

to walk along the tide-flooded

walkway with the fishes

and the birds

 

 

 

 

My day enhanced by sparkling

Chemdawg y'all

Added some cannabis chocolate

 

The relentless approach

of rotary blades

 

 

But why?

 

A pestiferous helicopter

circled the beach for a half an hour

 

Planted on a bench

behind a shock of fennel

I shook my fist

up at the nuisance

 

It was just someone with

authoritarian access

 

No credible threat existed

and if someone took out

an assault rifle and shot up

the beach-goers

What could the helicopter do?

Shoot back?

 

 

 Mr  Big Shot

spoiling the workers holiday

because he can

 

 

 

I want to go under the water

 

 

Dive, dive, dive

 

Before I too

turn into

a curmudgeon fish

 

I want to observe

and make discoveries

like this little mermaid

Like how a skate

 

Settles down to the bottom

 

Like this sweet tyke

I want to pause a moment

in fish-based wonder

 

It's all open

it's our home

We come from there

 

 

I am as elemental

as a red rock lobster

from the primordial stew

 

 

 

Thus

I keep the big picture in mind

and keep  swimming

in a forward direction

 

 

With a little

prayer

 

 

a little help

from me ancestors

 

 

Memorial Day

28 May 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer's Always Gone

How high the Moon?

Will I see you in September?

or lose you to a Summer love

How I misspent my Summer stay-cation

the narcissistic minutiae of experience

Love minus zero

no limit

The centrifuge of sugar

You are getting very very

sleepy

Demon Sugar

A charming cheerful

entertainment product

for children

Here they come

I am the egg truck

Sugar Zombie lunchbox

I think somebody

over-egged

this kid

Geezer?

Send me your photo

when you are this age

Summer school in

my favorite subjects

Saw some surrational art

Reread an old old book

amazing descriptions of now

all dystopian predictions

have come true

Pure cinema

saw a movie I quite liked

Not much live music

except on the radio,

Only show I remember seeing

was Country Joe and the Fish

in a mighty reincarnation

playing the entire first LP

at a Summer of Love

50 year anniversary

outdoors on Telegraph

Morning, morning

again, again

They finally removed the shroud

from the new building next door

Ten feet of my Eastern view gone,

ah well perhaps it will reduce

particulate matter from

Broadway traffic

There it is in all its brutalism
Oddly they eschewed almost
all the southern sunlight
it create a village scene
more exclusive I suppose

This figure in the alley below

seems to mock me at times

depends on my mood

A large back porch

on the estuary

last of a  Victorian row,

Some say ghosts still gather

on a mid-summer night

Sweet young couple,

I imagine that they are going

to church to ask the priest

to marry them

Skiffs in repose

Estuary and hills

Our sparkling clear

summer weather,

mild in all seasons

The saintly knight

and his faithful horse

are undaunted

What the world needs now

more beasts on the road

urban gladiator shops

I left my convertible

in a parking lot

and continued on

on foot

Down the Port

down Jack London square

reflection of blue pole

in very red automobile

reaches ultra-indigo

Project X O

Disk found at X O location

Raiders are splitting for Las Vegas

(big thanks to Sheldon Adelson)

yet the marks continue

in their chauvinistic delusion

Beneath City Hall

Courthouse, jail, highway,

BART tracks

not merely a tent

a rubble field homestead,

The first public school in Oakland

was once located here,

metal plaque since stolen

I fly the coop

make my exit

file for endangered

species status

Spend a lot of time

 by the water

and in the garden

Water and flowers

all one needs for a good time

 

Fuchsia

lifts me up

Shade tree experience

the best things in life

are free if you are

Evening

used to marvel how

fast a week seems to go by

today I feel that about

the years

I'll send you all my love

everyday in a letter

sealed with a kiss

     August-September 2017