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Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp),13 September 2006
That green plastic fish in the pool
made by the rocks along the trail in Tilden
offered the typical post romantic false
made by the rocks along the trail in Tilden
offered the typical post romantic false
getaway into the natural, perhaps
but that was then and this is a different
time, the time of no way out, too late now
This town totally ate me for lunch
but that was then and this is a different
time, the time of no way out, too late now
This town totally ate me for lunch
but not before keeping my brain packed up
in that swell green lunch box
for all those many months that turned
into all those many years of afterlife alas
not quite imperceptibly it must be admitted
It's a long time ago already now but oh my
I don't really know why unless it's the brain compression
the memory of that green plastic fish
or it may have been one of its several long forgot plastic rock
pool fish of many colors of yesteryear antecedents
lingers because
encounters of that sort always gave birth in me even then to
I don't really know why unless it's the brain compression
the memory of that green plastic fish
or it may have been one of its several long forgot plastic rock
pool fish of many colors of yesteryear antecedents
lingers because
encounters of that sort always gave birth in me even then to
an insane wish to escape into the sky
Plastic fish along trail, Berkeley: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp), 7 February 2010
Airport terminal, Denver: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp), 30 July 2006
Airport terminal, Denver: photo by Chuck Patch (chuckp), 26 September 2010