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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco authors read from their work. That means you, too. \nSan 
 Francisco located stories given preference. \n\nLoose-leaf authors \nscat 
 \nter \nwords in \nthe wind sha \ndow \nof a library \n\n\nHere's a recent 
 work read: \n\nBetween the heat and Greta Thunberg lies the whole of 
 America, \nStill romancing road trips \nSky trips \nCheap stuff from Amazon 
 \nAnd a mythos that if only you had the expanse of a continent \nYou'd be 
 as righteous and grand and pious and independent \nAs George Washington, 
 who raped black women to supply his \nSubstitute for fossil fuels \n\n\nAnd 
 another: \n\nJack Hirschman \n\nJack the magnificent translator, \nThe 
 charge d'affaire of North Beach plump words to the world, \nDrank his 
 Stalinovich vodka with a bobbing scoop of ice cream, \nThen took to the air 
 waves with a little murmur, \nTrailing Italian and Spanish rime into the 
 brisk begotten vaporous sky above Coit Tower. \n\nI hosted him once, \nHe 
 and four others; \nPaid them car fare to Bernal. \n\nAnd now? \nHis slushy 
 pronunshiation \nWon't fit into a single poem or eulogy, \nBut comes 
 spilling out the alleys and cracked windows \nOf the little town smelling 
 of focaccia if you wake early enough. \nAye, North Beach. \nAye, aye, Jack 
 Hirschman. \nYou've escaped the neighborhood and gone on tour. \n\nAnd one 
 more: \n\nLet Sleeping Dogs Lie \n\nThe neat, sweet, and big as life 
 stenciled stick-on film \nAdheres to windows beautifully: \nBlack \nLives 
 \nMatter \n\nYet when I wonder out loud, \n"Enough to end the private 
 ownership of the Earth?" \nThe shushing begins. \n\nI guess if you peel 
 that lettering on film off your window \nThere's no need to feel like a dog 
 in heat, \nHumping everybody's morality trousers \n\nAnd you can go back to 
 backing Trump \nBy default as he collects the ground rent \nat 500 
 California Street. \n\n\nNo, no, really; just one more:\n\nSPRAWL\n\nYou, 
 know, even in San Francisco\nWhere the fog clogs the valleys\nAnd cars gum 
 up the streets,\nThere are plenty of vacancies\nObscuring the view that we 
 could have.\n\nThe Ohlone landscape you can fantasize\nOf scrub and sand 
 and rock\nOnly needs the natives--all of 'em:\nEverybody sporting a Giants 
 cap or jersey--\nTo embrace the free market pricing\n"We are on indigenous 
 land" belly-ache-ers\nAnd righteous do-gooders abhor,\nApply it to land as 
 though Occupy San Francisco\nMeant the land was ours,\nAnd demand the 
 titled landowners \nFork the location rent over.\nThat's what it means to 
 eat the rich on their own tines.\nThat, kiddies, would obliterate land 
 speculation\nAnd give open space scrub and sand and rock\nA kick in the 
 Ramytush.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/04/18845401.php
SUMMARY:Bernal Litterai [sic]
LOCATION:Bernal Branch library\n500 Cortland Avenue\n(we gather in the outdoor 
 amphitheater on the Moultrie side)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/04/18845401.php
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