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Category: San Francisco Poems

Mission Dolores

More like the Avenues

Than the Mission,

We think of what might have been,

Had they camped on York Street,

Half a mile further from the wind.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 17, 2022 1 Minute

Graffiti Ocean Beach 1970s

Nixon’s Dad Should Have Pulled Out Early

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 17, 2022August 16, 2022 1 Minute

Ortega street resevoir

Tai Chi artists

Go with the flow in the fog,

As I shiver and quiver

Looking for Marin Hills and God.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 10, 2022August 8, 2022 1 Minute

A great life

Dad walks where he and mom used to,

Feeling guilty mom’s sick,

His beauty no longer there to talk with,

“She loved days like this.

Shit.”

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 5, 2022August 4, 2022 1 Minute

San Francisco’s finest son

Too bad about Robert Frost,

He packed up and left.

70 years later perpetual teenagers came west.

Oh how I lost!

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 4, 2022August 3, 2022 1 Minute

South of Market San Francisco

From bums to gentry

Either way I lose.

Tacky buildings, a life of booze

I always feel empty.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment August 1, 2022July 31, 2022 1 Minute

Hills – San Francisco

Getting steeper every year,

You stop at the top a little longer.

After you’ve caught your breath,

You keep watching.

Don’t know how long you’ll be here.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment July 27, 2022July 26, 2022 1 Minute

Potrero Hill

Balmy mornings
Kids look to East Bay
Dreaming of sultry greatness
Playing ball in St. Louis, Cincinnati.

As adults
They walk to the west side
See the peaks
Fog thick and still behind them
Wondering if it’s too late to be majestic
Knowing they might never be at peace.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment July 19, 2022July 18, 2022 1 Minute

6 Masonic – san francisco

End of the line,

Bus pulls into circle.

Driver springs from coach to peer at the ocean against the wind,

Facing it stoically like he does his riders,

But loving the fierceness.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment July 13, 2022July 12, 2022 1 Minute

Stowe lake – russians

Russians walk around lake in the fog

Enduring our summer chill

Making me shiver over who they saw killed

On days bleak like this

By a leader they thought was God.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment July 10, 2022July 9, 2022 1 Minute

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These posts are letters David wrote to his deceased brother. Jim died in 1990. Click the link under Categories above.

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