Oakland, California: Urban Forest

Wednesday November 24: After months departure, the rhythmic sway and screeching wheels carry me across the urban forest as I shrink slightly in my clothes from the stench of urine. Vacant lots of West Oakland streak by as we speed toward the city.

Thursday November 25: Ten strangers gather in ritual as a downtown studio apartment fills with the aroma of holiday feast. Hours later we realized it was the best thanksgiving we've ever had. SpermAfroKite. One word, Three syllables.

Friday November 26: City thrifting yields a backpack full of cassette tapes as I stalk extravagance and fail. My soul fills with musics of the open mic and I feel home again.

Saturday November 27: Last night Shareef the cowboy from St. Louis, Missouri drove us home to Oakland in a magical motor car with sparkling lights of the bay gleaming in my eyes and 45 minutes of bliss engulfed us whole. Its time to collage.

Text Message Poem:

The ice on the road divides foreseen destinations.

Defrosted comfort.

Any place could take us.

You are.

I am.

We are in company in any stretch of land.

By Jesse Meade

news paper poetry:

Join us on Thanksgiving for roasted goose and gluewien.

I'm a 23-year old female college student whose life consists of going to class and going to the gym.
Nature requires nurture.
You bike to work and your bag is not plastic.
Talk with sexy local singles.
FREE COUNSELING.
Sex advise the easy way.
Closed for Thanksgiving.
In celebration of Thanksgiving.
Bay area habitat has disappeared since the gold rush?
So speak up.
Voices of light.
We can help!

By Jesse Swansburg Meade and Andrew Michael DelGreco

Cafe International Open Mic Found Poem:

Sipple died from pneumonia at the age of 47 on February 2, 1989.

If you live in California and you watch a lot of sports on television...

Getting rid of it is the priority.

Robert Joseph Carr, 60, died peacefully October 24, 2010.

Holidays are coming.

I grew up in Ohio rooting for the big red machine.

Peron said there was no pornography on his computer and he never saw the pornographic material in question.

"I think I run the Cathedral," she said, "I have oversight of everything that goes on here."

Need to retrieve market trends in South Beach?

By David Alexander Navarro Jr, Jesse Swansburg Meade, Andrew Michael DelGreco

I'm Oregon-bound.