Easy BART Rider

The Flaneur has been taking the roulette route lately

Get there quick and comfortably

 or plunge into uncertainty and dysphoria

Keeps things exciting

1.
Round trip

 Waiting on a Richmond train

On a superb quality blend
One enters a timeless zone
 A buddhistic emptiness pervades

 Train time, ba-by!




Berkeley, Berkeley



 The clouds get squiggly with it

 The Berkeley Post office was in danger
Of being swallowed by someone's ass

When I rides BART
I often get lost in the sky




The little BART train
Soldiers on

Things start to get complicated,
Approaching Oakland

16 February 2016

2.

On my walk to the BART station
I stop to smell the roses
and to salute the Flag

Good-bye, cruel world,
I'm going to Berkeley today

Here comes the tunnel








On BART you see a lot
Jelly mamas with smart phones

17 February 2016

Storm

paper floats upward

trailer truck blasts a long note

leaves stir like wee birds

midnight walk -- lightning

 thunder rolls toward the sea

no one else out side

17 February 2016

Merkel as Viridiana

Let's see, on New Year's Eve a loosely organized group of desert rats drove off the ubermenchen of Cologne with firecrackers so they could molest and rob their frauleins.
Sargent Schultz of the Cologne constabulary saw nothing and reported that it had been a peaceful gathering.

Then of course the women's complaints were reported. Similar events, indicating a widespread plan for the rapine hi jinks it seems, had happened in quite a few places elsewhere.

In  the film Viridiana,  which the great Luis Bunuel made in Spain in 1961, a pious, idealistic nun inherits a large estate from her rotten uncle. She invites beggars onto the estate who waste little time before wrecking the place and attempting to rape her.

Chinese Presidents' Saint Valentine Day

Berkeley Library lobby vitrine

Spring is making it self known

Holidays fall away like pictorial calendar pages

If they try to claim the ocean

Send in the Marines


 

Bart station,

Eligible bachelor

Sensitive, digs animals

 From a moving BART train window

The cloud was segmented like a shrimp

 or like  a feather

 Underground

As DEVO so aptly claimed

It's a beautiful world

 The trouble with appropriation branding

Subterranean lunch spot

 All in Old-ass Oakland

 Soup can curtains

Xs and Os

 I can't call myself a vegetarian

Because on occasion I buy 

a chicken Cajun sausage here

Feels sinful to go in here 

Like a XXX adult book shop

Restaurant next door

Sells oyster po-boys

And other delights

A garish race-car scene
A world endangered by oil and exhaust

Home to my own DIY Hitchcock film

In Spring's green imperative
Some cuttings I brought home
Produced leaves

13-14 February 2016

Ice Ice Baby

On balmy Lincoln's birthdays

 the Flaneur finds somewhere to cool his head

The every-day erotic uncanny.
pervades

Across the street from the flowering trees

Young cat drives his guitar in modal fashion

Berkeley Community Theater

Part of the high school complex where I saw shows by

 Lou Reed, Joan Baez, Bo Diddley, Robert Plant, 

and the first US appearance of  the legendary Clash,

Other historic concerts include Dylan and the Hawks

David Bowie's final local show in 2002 and

The Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley film concert

I even got a pranam from the Dali Lama at the stage door

The Magnes museum

Judaica... I've never visited...

Are Goyim welcome to convert?

Secular icons abound

The Gaia building

A colossal municipal art hornswoggle

Full of goddess baloney

There has been a Mexican restaurant here

Since the land belonged to Spain

This is the full-of-itself

Brower center

Hub of environmental do-gooder 

hypocrisy

The lobbyist's lobby

This represents the Burroughsian centipede

At the heart of things

Swept under the rug

A ghost ship frozen on its voyage

Anywhere out of this world

The world of

Vanishing Ice

Pendulous icicles are like

Stalactites in a crevasse,

Back in the day

Ice caps, glaciers, rich cold seas,

Today it goes without mention,

An Armageddon of ice loss

Occurs as we speak

Surrealism at the end of days

The stylized olden days of humanity,

Fleshy earth paintings

A school I'd discovered in Canada's

Great White North

A putrescent garden

Decaying corpse of what once was

Human attempt to melt a glacier

using their collective body temperature

An inescapable conclusion

Forebodes

Let it come down

Meanwhile I while away my biological life

Embedded in flowering clover

Nourished on a diet of plants

Alive, outdoors, under the life-giving sky,
Nothing left but the recording

12 February 2016