September Exhibitions in Berkeley

1.

 Sidewalk art

 What lies beneath

 Push pin pointillism

  American Thanksgiving dinner,
Does this turkey make my ass look fat?

The Cubist cul-de-sac

 Surrealist boudoir

 

 Another day,

Another dharma

 Soon the entire world will be commodified 

2.

 

 Panama-Pacific

International Exposition

 

 The Jewel City

San Francisco 1915

 Bijoux of nostalgia

 Panama-Pacific

International Exposition

at San Francisco

1915

 Holding up the walls

 The cost of life in the bay area,

The Labor of Hercules

World Fairs begin and end in time gone by

The flush of youth,

the shock of the new

 Hard won

The Golden West

 The glittering city of dreams

 Take from someone who spends a lot of time on the Bay

Treasure Island is cold and windy, 

Lonesome and dark

 .

 Humanist ideals

Writ large

 Civilizations of the bay

Fall and vanish away

 Vaguely recollected on the street today

So we wait for the train doors to open

To take us on home...

Yipes stripes!

Oh to have been the breeze,

And those sneaker spats,

Hand off, R. Crumb, she's mine

August 2015

Oakland Industrial Art and Culture

Accompany the Flaneur on a psychogeographical expedition

 We begin around here--Eighth and Wasington

Watch out for a mean gay rooster lurking around here

Frankenfood accident in poultry industry

-- pigeons get found dead

 We suggest our location indirectly

 A gruesome silent movie

Morbidly projected on a wall painted black

 Representing the brand of commodified athletics

 Consumed hereabout

A banal verse in a concrete poem

 A coveted wall on which to signify

 The last green of spring

Clings to the roots of summer

Phantom limbs,
Monochrome tree

 Kiddy Bitch

Street art gold

 Classicism in high voltage industrial design

Dirty old town,

Dirty as we like it to be

Power point presentation

I dig its use of punctuation

 The high end of industrial intelligence

 An eruptive landscape

The unstoppable return of the repressed

 Emergent Silver Skull

 A sudden train passes at a good clip

A few feet past my elbow,

Sensation addict

 It's a Hitchcock world

Palpable frisson just in being alone here

 When Roosevelt came to the land of the hummingbird,
 Here comes old slow poke now

 Welcome to the Port of Oakland

 The Platonic ideal

Shadowy reflection on a cave of glass

 The actual and its double

 We sail toward the double sunset 

An imaginary bay rising in the sky

 Screens behind the illusion

Trainwreck culture

 The FAT LADY?!

Is that even considered politically correct anymore?

The new police bruisers
Always enough funding for police gasoline

So they can stop the sky from being so lovely

 ASK / WHY?

What the police see when they hit Washington

 Close to home again,

Transgender wig salon or something

Speak softly and carry a big schtick

That's my new motto

17 July 2015

Elmwoody Benvenue

 

 Homestead Security

The Flaneur walks on very familiar grounds,

Energized on very familiar coffee,

 an exquisite blend of girl scout cookies and OG Sour

opens up my loft space

September flowers

 their subtle colors

Beauty moves in the breeze

 Tea rose of late summer

 The old garden gate

singing slowly in the wind

 Old garden chairs

tumble through obsolescence,

Set aside for the bonfire of the wicker man

Glad to see the wooly clouds

on yon hillside

ever thusness so implied

Under the timeless Elmwood trees 

2 September 2015