Oakland Twisted Revisited

Oakland parts company and grabs your collar.

Oakland drives people to live some where else.

Oakland thinks trees are dust mops for buildings.

Oakland hides the sky as if blue were a gang color,

Strokes its hills with purple thistle and jealousy.

Oakland parts company and grabs your collar.

Oakland can eat you like a Pop-Tart for dinner.

She can move to a groove, but don’t fool yourself.

Oakland thinks trees are dust mops for buildings.

Oakland smokes in a corner and asks for blood donors,

Gives free advice, doles out soap and celery.

Oakland parts company and grabs your collar.

Oakland is star spangled with glass, a girl

at the Paramount  acting out of impulse.  

Oakland thinks trees are dust mops for buildings.

Oakland catches me in her windowpane like a daughter

Wearing purple dreads that look falsetto.

Oakland thinks trees are dust mops for buildings.

Oakland parts company and grabs your collar.