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Coming back to my hometown from my writing gig in San Rafael over the Golden Gate Monday I felt a special satisfaction that my city was still there, still that low lovely skyline, TO the left Alcatraz (can YOU think of a worse torture than cold brutal solitary with your only view SF a few yards away?), a skyline untouched by blight, (you have to go by the other side to see the two thin silver cigarettes Gavin Newsom built where he had promised homeless housing, what I call the Twin Dildos, and we already have our phallic symbol: Coit Tower--Google it:, with a surprising-to-me fine new addition, the Bay Bridge, white and shiny like a distant amusement park ride or set of a science fiction movie, and now I have to see it up close, after seeing it fall in the World Series Quake seventeen long years ago, some good news for a change and welcome...
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:34:16 +0000

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