SAN FRANCISCO POETS
KC Wilder
vehicles
crusty old triceratops
maunders down Balboa,
carps about some faded glory
salad days of yore . . .
San Francisco's ever-changing
vast kaleidoscopic shores
play host to outlandish things,
to netherworldish visitations.
for example, ten bazillion
murky-looking pop-up vans,
skidding down the freakball flats
of Fulton Street today.
denizens along the way
lament how time is slipping by . . .
avion and butterfly,
swirls above that beautify,
worries disappearing down
the Filbert Street stairway.
cracking like a fortune cookie
dropped somewhere on Stockton,
i get pumped and swing around
a giant Rice-a-Roni box.
putting out here, Lands' End
and The Coast Trail totally rock.
i fine-wine-free-associate,
glance along the Golden Gate
vehicles that shoobie doobie . . .
strangers in the night.
© 2007 by KC Wilder
KC Wilder is a poet, artist, short-story writer, free-speech activist, and musician ... currently living in San Francisco. His writings have appeared in hundreds of publications around the world , including recently, The Seattle Review, Poetry New Zealand, Lichen (Canada), Poetry Canada, The Pacific Review, Contemporary Rhyme and The Feathertale Review.
His acts of protest, underlining U.S. government assaults on freedom of speech, have been widely documented: The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Press, Spin Magazine, The San Francisco Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, have each done features.
Wilder formerly published and edited 18 editions of an internationally distributed music magazine, a publication that was chosen as a favorite by various review media, culminating in Wilder's 20-city speaking and performance tour of the U.S.
Wilder published and edited 6 editions of a literary 'zine as well 10 mini-sized dadaesque lit zines that featured unique writings from Allen Ginsberg, A.D. Winans, Lorri Jackson, and Tuli Kupferberg, among others. Wilder is currently working on a graphic novel and on a movie screenplay.
In the 1990s, with the help of Allen Ginsberg, Wilder won a landmark free-speech court battle that helps guarantee the rights of poster artists to create and distribute flyers even when their subject matter is controversial.
In addition to numerous CDs released independently by his own bands, some of Wilder's poetry has been recorded and released in Europe by an expatriot peace activist group known as Anti-War Action (AWA). KC Wilder website
