How Long Have You Lived In San Francisco?



can you buy the
 the story
 can you see the hearty sturgeon
  embraced by a kingfish
     the trident of
Neptune
   spearing the lungs
      of Jim Morrison
         -I'm walking here-
           I've seen
               vampires with warm tall boys
     of malt liquor in their backpack
reciting poetry at
 a cafe named after an elephant
 charge the people
 a dollar and a half
  throw the money changers out..
give to Caesar
   etc
 and a jacknife
   and a jackfruit life
    of misery
  i don't know what I'm talking about
here
   but he was walking the seas
 chasing Nabu
   chasing Hanuman
      chasing Ahab
 chasing Amy
    j.j. cale played that old broken guitar
          shuffling on down the hiway
I've seen poets on amino blockers
   talkin current events
    tom waits impersonators
        selling movie rights
           and buying shirts
 at full price-
  ---- it weren't jc penney
 i'm telling you that -
     I've seen a poet raised
by Franco in spain
   steal his girlfriends rental car
in San Francisco
  crazy 6th international shit
      -I've seen famous underground cartoonists
        throw a poets journal in the
          warm sudsy water
              of a local drinking establishment
and the ink just ran
ran down the pages
   dripping
oh well