y66 Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 San Francisco Remembered by Philip Schultz In summer the polleny light bounces off the white buildings& you can see their spines & nerves & where the joints knot.You've never seen such polleny light. The whole city shining& the women wearing dresses so thin you could see their wing-tipped hips& their tall silvery legs alone can knock your eye out.But this isn't about women. It's about the city of blue waters& fog so thick it wraps round your legs & leaves glistening trailsalong the dark winding streets. Once I followed such a trail& wound up beside this redheaded woman who looked up & smiled& let me tell you you don't see smiles like that in Jersey City.She was wearing a black raincoat with two hundred pockets& I wanted to put my hands in each one. But forget about her.I was talking about the fog which steps up & taps your shoulderlike a panhandler who wants bus fare to a joint called The Paradise& where else could this happen? On Sundays Golden Gate Parkis filled with young girls strolling the transplanted palms& imported rhododendron beds. You should see the sunsetin their eyes & the sway, the proud sway of their young shoulders.Believe me, it takes a day or two to recover. Or the trolleys clankingdown the steep hills—why you see legs flashing like mirrors! Please, Lord, please let me talk about San Francisco. How that gorilla of a bridge twists in the ocean wind & the earthturns under your feet & at any moment the whole works can crack& slip back into the sea like a giant being kicked off his raft& now, if it's all right, I would like to talk about women… from The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems. © Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Reprinted with permission at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 well that was about a minute and a half of my life i'll never get back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 well that was about a minute and a half of my life i'll never get back Makes me glad that I only wasted 10 seconds reading your response... :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Love it. And it took me more than 90 seconds to read it. Keep em coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Love it. And it took me more than 90 seconds to read it. Keep em coming. Agree completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Love it. And it took me more than 90 seconds to read it. Keep em coming. Agree completely. Jimmy speedreads, maybe? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAnneM Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Wonderful! I was just there Sunday, and every chance I get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Love it. And it took me more than 90 seconds to read it. Keep em coming. Agree completely. Jimmy speedreads, maybe? :D not fast enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 It's a cool poem, but I think it's kind of ironic that this is a poem about beautiful women in San Francisco. I didn't think San Francisco was known for that at all. Maybe it's just a poem about a dirty old man in San Francisco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 It's a cool poem, but I think it's kind of ironic that this is a poem about beautiful women in San Francisco. I didn't think San Francisco was known for that at all. Maybe it's just a poem about a dirty old man in San Francisco? Shrouded in fog so possibly wearing a raincoat..... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 I have various connections with SF. I have an ex-wife living not far from Fisherman's Wharf. My current (and final) wife grew up not far from Haight Ashbury. A son-in law is from Santa Rosa, not so far away. We were there for a while in January, me mostly busy at teh annual Math meetings, my wife enjoying the nostalgia. I was pleased to take her to the City Lights, which had eluded her (I think her parents kept her on a pretty short leash approaching the Summer of Love). Still, my enthusiasm really is for the Bay Area as a whole. I spent a few months in Berkeley and spent far more time biking the surrounding hills than roaming the streets of SF. No doubt it is an interesting city. And with all that walking, nobody's getting fat except Mama Cass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 sitting on a park bench...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 sitting on a park bench...... jethro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 sitting on a park bench...... jethro? eyeing little girls with bad intent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hookers - the REAL San Francisco treat. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted April 16, 2010 Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 sitting on a park bench...... jethro? eyeing little girls with bad intent snot running down his nose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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