New Museum of Afro-Futurism

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Baby Jesus

 

 

 

 

 Street view

 

 Afro-Fururist museum 

consists of display window galleries

available from periperal sidewalks

at all times of day or night

 

 

 

 

Vodoun past resurfaces in
Future New Orleans 
as envisioned in Oakland

 

 

Papa Legbot

 

 

 

 

The Future is Black

Madame Marie Laveau

late of Bourbon Street

 Jumping Jack Flash

on Congo Square

 

 

 I've never seen anyone inside

It seems to be more of a ritual interior

by nature

 

 

 

The Future of

Street Fashion

 

 

 

 

Mammie Loa

 

 

 

Joyful noisey

 

 

 

 

So far-out she's gone

 

 

 

Into the Afro-Future

 

 

It's not a game 

 

 

 

Played with toys 

 

 

Well, not just a game

played with toys

 

 

 

Afro-Futurism 

it's a thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

24 December 2021

 

 

 

 

Today's Walk

 

Oakland reveals itself

What I witnessed today

Helicopters patrol

the castles burning

 

Know what the flags

with leaves and pumas

are all about now

 

Oakland's new Panthers

 

Native are restless

tribal tom-toms underneath

get it from the drum

 

A little ominous actually

an objective observer

might think

  

(These two image captures

are from the other night

 

Tendency

toward lawlessness

rationalizes authoritarian

response

 

Don't they know

we're in a time

of Biblical prophecy

of Mosaic Law?

 

USA's blood and treasure

must serve as a Golem

To protect our greatest ally

in the Holyland

 

Meanwhile

in Chinatown

 

Everything is

out in the open

 

 

Including

the kitchen sinks

 Chinese strategic thinking

is shedding sawdust

 

China just built

a massive railway

into Iran

 

Watch out

for sharp tails

the return momentum

of war-mongering

 

 

The tragedy of the commons

devoid of  the commoners

 

Central Post Office

part of a ghostly ambiance

in broad daylight

 

 

Institutions

that extend democratic

opportunity under slow

attritions

 

 

All our Cities

lie in dust

the Post office is being stolen

the Public schools starved

 

Wildlife will reclaim

our civic architecture

until they choke

on our exhaust

 

Sometimes trees

mistaken for dead

can come back to life

 

 

 

Interesting times

as shards of empire

come tumbling

around out ears

 

 

 

An inevitable

deconstruction

of toxic constructs

 

Bio-lucient

cinder blocks

The living world

hits a wall

 

 

 

 

 

17 May 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journey to the Center of Oakland's Mind (expanded consciousness)

 

One Sunday morning

in December

I found myself run out

of rolling papers

Fortunately I had

some Cannabis chocolate

The Day begins

in pervasive light

 

 

Over to the vicinity

of Latham square

 

The previous day

I had noticed a very strange

young man hereabouts

Cross-eyed mono-browed

werewolf hairline

 

He looked like a denizen

of the Isle of Doctor Moreau

a dog man sniffing out

hand-outs

He was here again today

and followed into the store

cajoling people for funding

 

The store had another door

on Telegraph,

and I discretely withdrew

 

Gothic Cathedral

flat-iron building

City under
Reconstruction

 

Oblique alleyway into

the Frankie O. plaza where

all the demos begin

 

The Rotunda

owned by the villain

trying to ram in a coal

terminal at the Port

 

 

 

Riotous illustrated art

in a niche gallery

Downtown becomes

Toontown

Darkness seems

to cover the earth

 

Mudra

Oakie Doakie

 

 

Brick wall

remnant of previous

civilization

 

Looking toward

City Hall

 

 

Refurbished

Latham Square

 

Eternity every moment

 

Not yet a skate park

 

 

Civic Centered

The Happiest

of Holidays

 

And to all

 a good afternoon

A guy sleeps under a
a great Oak tree

in Oakland center
Let it all hang out
 

I gave a nervous skinny kid

a sandwich,

He had a book of
his obsessive writings,
didn't encourage talk

 

Vast new mural

on Broadway

looks on impassively





Stay centered
in the center of town
in the center of your mind

 

 

Listen to the Lion

 

 

 

 

December 2018