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Self-absorbed shoppers

Stiff and rigid as Davidson’s cross

Just a glance from grace.

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David Vaszko God and Religion, San Francisco Poems Leave a comment September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 1 Minute

Morning in the Avenues

Trilling birds penetrate fading sleepiness

Waking residents to a new dawn

Daring them to go out on a limb

Purse their lips

Make love sounds to the world.

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

Candlestick Park

They complained about the wind.
Willie said it isn’t hot.
They pissed and moaned and griped.
Willie told ’em: Learn to win with what you got.

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

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

Glaring

This dazzling light overwhelms us.
Having come here to be somebody,
We realize we’re nobody.

We drink to feel right,
To feel godliness we fail to realize,
In this city where God is always right before our eyes.

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David Vaszko God and Religion, San Francisco Poems Leave a comment June 12, 2022June 11, 2022 1 Minute

Mariposa street

Painting everywhere.
Taggers overflow.
With butterflys’ brillance.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment April 30, 2022April 28, 2022 1 Minute

Grace

Swaggering against the wind
You vow to live this city’s beauty.
When you feel ugly
You step into these wonderful churches,
Out of the gales,
Marvelling at peaceful light,
Your promise still in sight
Only much more humbly.

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment April 21, 2022April 19, 2022 1 Minute

Mornin’ afta

Hung over again

We shiver in the wind.

Surveying the splendor of this city,

Knowing we betrayed its beauty,

Corrupted its freedom.

Slaves to our lust,

We still cannot rise to the occasion:

It isn’t about us

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David Vaszko San Francisco Poems Leave a comment April 12, 2022April 10, 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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