Acid incense and balloons
(without the LSD or the incense)
Lots of cosmic debris in the atmosphere
the Flaneur plays it cool
The Patina of Time
Too long indoors
underneath the lamp
With my carafe
and my giraffe
Time for a wee hejira
I go out I go out
The dogs bark
but the caravan
moves on
Saturday
Better jump down a manhole
light yourself a candle
Appearance of new rocks
perpetually wet
A tad creepy
Some sort of stickiness
to the touch
varnished in place
This is "Joey"
says he can't be
a white supremacist
because he identifies
as "Japanese-American"
(one euro, one Japanese parent)
He and the imbeciles
of his alt-right social media group
held-up San Francisco by getting a permit
to rally on Chrissie field
When thousands vowed to show up
they announced they'd have instead
a "press conference" at Alamo Square,
The cops put a fence around it
as Mayor Lee continued to denounce
them as a hate group,
This schmuck ran around
popping up on Facebook
mis-representing free speech
and hiding from the people
he challenged to a fight,
Think of the money they cost the City
in their moronic attempt to disrupt
"Pelosi country"
Saturday Night
Chinatown fair 10PM
deserted at night
Bulbous amusements
at rest
Seagull
on a pirate ship
looks toward the estuary
Lights change hue
on another dormant ride
Graffiti gate
changes hues
The rat race
takes a brief
breather
Ought stash and budget depleted
I managed an cannabis-infused
olive oil high just by
applying the oil to containers
that had held the super-potent herb
I think the mind
in strengthened
by occasionally letting go
of the strings
of rationality
4.
Atypical Sunday Outing
The class war, race war
and stealth attempts on decency
continued today over in Berkeley
This "free speech" rally was
self-identified as a drive
to deny free speech to Marxists,
The cowards hid behind police protection
as over 7,000 people showed up to disagree,
Then the Black Bloc showed up
leaped over the fence around their playground
and proceeded to kick large ugly ass
forcing the alt-righters from the park
and chasing them down the street
As a local musical genius wrote,
There's a bad moon on the rise
A tagger bombed the XO location
BART will obliterate it very promptly,
This artist's work has figured
in two previous Flaneur posts
by co-inky-dink
Down to the pleasant breezes
of the Port and the Square
on a day quite hotter than usual
but my euphoria deficit
makes it less than interesting today
Lo and behold
I look over at a little pier
and see two shiny objects
that turn out to be two swift
vape pens loaded with hash oil
that someone abandoned
O happy days
The Night Light
a club specializing in garage rock
As I passed it I noted this
reflective Marines decal on a van
then spied this dashing mannequin
A statement of exactly what
I know not but I sort of dug it
especially the Prince shirt,
I think it was to be used as
a stage prop by a band
unloading their van,
One of these cats watched me
take these shots with smile
than gave me his sincere thumbs up,
Like my late older brother once said,
You're still like a kid,
I replied that I
just never joined
the other side
Semper fi
y'all
Sometimes you just got to
leave your trobles on the doorstep
and row row row your boat
25-26 August 2017
