San Francisco

See the golden shores

Lapping at the legs of dreamy eyed travelers

And serious servants to the gilded towers

With solemn glance, a sick man stands upon the corners

Pleading with practiced eyes

He tries

To entice a suffered allowance

For his dazed delirium

It calls to him

It wants for him

And while the downward glances

Smart phone gleam

And earbuds cutting out the heartbeat

Thumping of a thunderous inequity

Such a beauty and a silent

Suffering

Glamour for breakfast and death for dinner

Shuttles from the thoroughfares

To corners where a people dance in cavernous abyss

While hilly homesteads

And summers made of pea soup skies

Leave fluttering hearts

Alight and so aliv 

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