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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 Ramaytush. \n\nand how 'bout one for this week? 
 \n\n\nAmnesia \n\nGive me Columbus Day sans the Indians, \nSans the 
 free-loaders, sans the socialists, \nSans the bison, sans the snail darter, 
 \nSans the carrier pigeon, sans Bears Ears, \nSans the whole of the 
 Americas. \n\nGive me Columbus Day with \nOnly the Atlantic, grey and vast, 
 \nOr blue and green and vast, \nWith impossibly beautiful blond highlights 
 at \nStart and end of day, \nLuring the dauntless voyager \nTo China and 
 India \nAnd nothing, absolutely nothing in between.\n\nAnd the 
 latest:\n\nPore over and pour out the poor.\nAnother study, please!\nGrab 
 some data off the "net."\nConvene a panel.\nConceive a syllabus:\nList a 
 course . . . Poverty 302, meets\nIn McClellan Hall, Room 407,Thursday 
 afternoons.\n\nOr, in a fit of pique at the dawdle:\nTax the rich,\nEat the 
 rich,\nBuild houses, buildings,\nSkyscrapers to the stars\nFilled with 
 running water and\nMicrowavable food, plus organic \nVegetables.\n\nBut 
 whatever\nWhatever\nwhatever you do,\nDon't simply earnestly behave like 
 the soil out of which they were formed was every bit theirs as yours.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/26/18845941.php
SUMMARY:Bernal Litterati [sic]
LOCATION:Bernal Branch Library\n500 Cortland Avenue\nSan Francisco\n(gather in the 
 outdoor amphitheater on the corner with Moultrie Street)
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