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November 4, 2012
Walking In - 10/23/12
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Soaking wet streets from the first real rain.
Squawking parrots and children stumbling into school late.
Sidewalk flower-boxes and Ficus trees.
Purple Melaleuca.
New Guinea Impatiens.
School kids stomp loudly down steep sidewalks,
Past the Fog Hill Market.
Someone cleans out their closet and tosses their clothes onto the sidewalk.
Last night, the mad gardeners came to the Vallejo steps and pruned the gardens fiercely with machetes and packed their remains tightly into biodegradable bags for collection.
The residents fall into the gardens with stunning Bay Bridge views reading books in the mornings magic.
Tourists gawk and stare and think, 'Who lives here?'
But I'm a tourist also. Only passing through.
Now at Broadway, a girl walks by with a book on Thailand and only now do I see SF for what it is - the gateway to the Orient.
Now, the Bottlebrushes of Montgomery Street.
And their hummingbird guardians.
A bicyclist rides by wearing the largest chain man has ever known.
An broken, ancient, oriental man scurries by, crablike, inspecting bags of trash as he passes.
A business fails and the jackhammers fall upon it, like a Hummingbird on a Bottlebrush.
Capitalism moves every failed business quietly into the hands of a new owner.
Now the financial districts and people walking by talking business deals into cell phones.
I wonder why I wasn't more successful. I try to rationalize it - to externalize the guilt.
This rationalization exercise is a well-worn path. Trodden into deep trenches by the slackers , the stoners, the Dimocrats.
Now, the tall buildings of the banks. Universally despised, by capitalists and commies alike.
These are the warts that the commies want to remove on 'Day One' of the revolution.
This is where it will start.
Not the buildings, per se, but the organizations will be remanded, repealed, and redacted.
Part of something. All of nothing.
I'm at work
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 4, 2012 at 11:04 PM
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