Saturday, August 26, 2017

mmdccxxvii

Negative Space

2 iPhone 6
cellphones – each
less than one
month old

a couple of
two terabyte
drives; one w/
a lifetime of
downloaded
(and most all if it
paid for) music
and the other
w/over 100 yrs
of digital (the
older ones
obviously
scanned from
originals) photos

a large black
rolling suitcase
(unknown brand)
which contained
this list of items 
stolen on 2nd 
night of being
homeless, 
sidewalk
robbery 
on Mason
near Sutter

all 5 bottles of my
prescription meds
which could not be
refilled soon enough
for the furniture move
to the storage unit

2/3rds of everything
accrued over a life-
time — of which the
13 most recent yrs
were spent on Nob
Hill in an apartment
I called home —
where, during my scheduled
attempt to remove my
belongings, I was ass-
aulted by the apt mgr
(who refused to allow
me to go to the emer-
gency room as I was
attempting to do so—
it had all become way
too much for me 
to handle)

various clothes, inc
many t-shirts, dozens
of coats and jackets,
the beautiful table
from the kitchen,
as well as my old-
est piece of furniture,
the marble table in
the hallway, well over
a hundred works of art,
one large box of memo-
rabilia w/items from most
every year of my life
all gone

& also,
3 door-drops of shoes,
all of which fit me, inc
several pairs of work/
dress shoes, the loss
of which would be
the source of severe
blisters for two months

one 10-yr-old cat named
Coco the Loco, who, like
me, had lived for over
a decade in an apart-
ment (#35) at the
intersection of
Pine & Mason,
San Francisco,
California.

Be happy, and/or RIP, dear Coco the Loco (my companion, 2007-2017)

dear Coco the Loco