36 Views of SF: 7. Haight Street Buzz
June 20, 2018

Is the Haight in some special know?
Or is it just Frisco’s tourist curio?
Is eccentric and strange the San Francisco flow?
Every way I turn, I get a special show.

Gods and Buddhas peer from shelf altars
Why? Why not? For Love of Ganesh.
A man chants Radhe Radheoverhead
A harmonium plays, like Allen once did.
Holy!

Deluxe trickster cynic outside Club Deluxe
sings tiptoe, through the bullshit–
Skinny old white guy, muse for our trip.
Holy!

Homeless man in blanket sits lotus-legged.
Head bent, heaven sent, Nataraj handed.
I guess he sits shiva, mourning, waiting for the dance.
Holy!

Gideon plays guitar –
Richard drums along –
I get urges to sing
and talk to pretty young things.
Holy!

There’s still a buzz in this town
even though stores close down.
There’s still a buzz about it
even through the evicts.

When the buzz ghosts us
or avocado toasts us
San Fran will be dead –
let’s go out with our cusses.
Holy fucked.
Wholly fucked.

There’s a Whole Fucks
in the Haight, too.
Just so you know
what’s really up.

Blog pairing:MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN VOL 12.6: PERSISTENCE OF VISION, VISION OF PERSISTENCE

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