Showing posts with label John Waters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Waters. Show all posts

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Independence Day and Environs






 
From Berkeley to Oakland
my wiggy circuit
never fails to provide
side-show and fireworks




 
A brilliant tree
towers over
the gate of eyes
outside the library
in Berkeley
 


 
Cloud face on Jupiter




 
X
The Man with X-Ray eyes




 
DEVO salutes Oakland
last stage Saturday
Mosswood Park
the Burger Boogaloo

 

 

 
Moonshine Devolution
marches on
Good-bye to all that




 
 
Sapphire
hybrid 27 % THC
 
 
Not without a lot of snags
Cannabis is legal
for the masses at last
 
 

 
RAY re-photos
 phantasmagoric photographs
 
 
At Berkeley Art Museum

 
Flying all the time
 

 
Sumi ink abstraction
the mind inquires after form



 
Light box rock

 
Ella Guru
 

 
DEVO
 salutes from the
newspaper rack

 
 
Drive-by journalism


 He has a huge Wizard head
in the back

 
Peering out of portholes
at the egregious traffic



 
With the exhortation to
RESIST!



 

 
The authoritarian
Big Cheeto-puss
long in senility
 

 
Seen amid
the "resistance"
the opposition party



 
A stand-alone sandwich board,
someone had knocked it over,
 I set it back up
out of fairness
 
 
 
 
I retired to Bongo burger
for a fresh carrot juice
to ponder everything
 
 
And homeward
drive-by captures
on the salty Telegraph bus
 
 


 
Big scene this weekend
John Waters intros
 DEVO's last live show...
foreversville?
 
 
 
I promised me
a Rose garden
 
 
And I intend to have it
until I'm planted myself


 
My life form will feed plants
and feed worms
in a blessed cycle



 
Hey baby
It's the Fourth of July
Baby take a walk outside

 
Buoy my spirit up
with inflatable flags
I'm stocking up on stick matches
as long as Cannabis is go



 
 
Quite courtyard
outside my bathroom
New building
as yet uninhabited
They'll have clouds and gulls too
but not like mine
 
 
Late nightfall
the sky hurls past
slowly
 
 
 
Night flight take-off
 
 
 
No pyrotechnics
were visible,
just three hours
of constant explosions
 


 
The Moon
so constant
so self-contained
 
 
 
 
 
 
June-July 2018
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, June 15, 2018

Oakland Babylon

in progress



 
 
 
Roll up
 the dark carnival that never ends
it just moves the police tape

 
In broad daylight
in a Broadway crosswalk




 
Super sexy heroes


 
Revelers




All smiles


 
Despite the attention of a
verbalizing African American man
overenthusiastic over
the voluptuous ladies
 
 
As they sweep past 


One wearing a décolleté gown


The other a see-through body stocking
that's all behind her



Not everyone is so
extravagantly dressed
for what I think is
Comic Con 2018


Motorcycle cops underscore
 a heavy police presence
a few blocks from police headquarters


Someone may have called the cops
about Black men wearing masks
(Nice kids actually)

And there is...



A Black sports idol on every pole,
The cops are abundant
because tonight's basketball
is to be a very big game
won by the local heroes
and the party is on ninth after it

 
This guy was great
middle-aged mad scientist
but I couldn't get a 
full frontal exposure
 
 
Based I think on
odd comics or something
I admit I don't get
 
 
Queen Bee
of her peer group 
 


Next Day


Comic Con is winding
down with a private sidewalk party
Here anybody making money
can just inconvenience the public



 
 Early exits
leave you wanting more
What will you miss?
 
 
Time to cross the line
that separates us
from make-believe

 
 They'll always be next year
until there isn't
see you then
 
 Next comes
Burger Boogaloo
 
 
Hosted by John Waters
 the least repressed
the most anarchistic
Catholic saint ever was
 
 
Eldritch Punk and New Wave acts
turn up for a pogo and a hamburger
every year in Mosswood park

 
Sign on BART elevator
at Rockridge
Yes it's come to this
Talk about the truth of
Devolution


Then the elevator door opened

 
Over the incessant traffic
I manage to avoid
Mount Tamalpais hovers
over a urban copse


 
There's another one
of these dumbos
saluting the Oakland As
 
Down at Jack London Square

 
I had just seen this same truck
near my pad
figure it deserves a portrait

 
 Meanwhile it's ethnic
war all the time
Video gaming addiction
has been judged a mental illness

Nevertheless
 

Every once in a while
one may meet
an elegant lady
 


 
 
June 2016