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September 20, 2012
Walking in - 9/11/12
In the morning, the racket of countless conures...the Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The bells of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral
I now know they are recordings, but still haunting
This is where Joe Dimagio married Marilyn Monroe
Walk past my motorcycle in the alley and how sad that it is there waiting on me
But I have no time for the bike today
Fresh young tires with nipples still to rub off
Down Grant Street and up Filbert Street as the sidewalks turn into steps
Countless stairs climbing to the sun in one of the most vibrant neighborhoods outside of NYC
A lady descends the stairs smoking a cigarette. Is she exercising or doing a Tuesday morning 'walk of shame'?
At Coit Tower, dripping wet sidewalks and Chinese doing their peculiar little exercise rituals
In the shade of Monterrey Cypress knolls of Telegraph Hill
Now down down down narrow Greenwich Steps cool shade and still I can see the poor housewife jogging up the stairs with a kettle bell and at the top her personal trainer points down and makes her trot down and do it all over again
Embarcadero tugboats and traffic streaming into the city on the top level of the Bay Bridge
I just missed Ted Kipping
http://www.treeshapers.com/aboutus.html
A worker bee rests in the shade collapsed on the sidewalk only his cigarette betrays his existence
Only it is the thing that keeps him alive it is what he lives for
Only a T-shirt today and still sweating on my walk in
Im shooting Melaleuca in Levi's plaza and I get run out of the plaza for having a "professional camera"
Try to explain that I'm not a photographer and only walkinh to work, but still he runs me off
Suddenly it dawns on me today is September 11th. That's why he ran me off
Now in shaded financial center and I wonder why some buildings are taller than others
I pause to shoot a homeless guy and "The Architect's Kitchen" rolls by.
I'm at work
Posted by Rob Kiser on September 20, 2012 at 12:40 AM
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