Tag Archives: San Francisco

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When I was six nobody knew where Seattle was. That was not at all what I meant to say.

No enterprise zone

Lately in the Mission District in San Francisco–which is to say, the last 18 months or so–police foot patrols have been increased in order to “increase neighborhood safety and awareness of crime.” Usually they harass homeless people out of doorways (thank heavens we’re saving the neighborhood from sleepiness!)

Mission Street poetry thursday, friday, saturday night

I will be out on Mission Street reading at the spots indicated on the map in my venue post from last week.

A Letter

Dear Mayor, Board of Supervisors, and the Department of Public Affairs for the San Francisco Police Department, As I write this, yet another police siren is sounding through my window, an increasingly aggravating noise whose frequency has only continued to increase over the last few months and has become especially intensified in just the last [...]

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