One dollar movies on Market Street.

Andrey Zharov

Cycle of leaf and fruit 

The tree of life has countless branches 

And only one is yours  

James Lee Jobe  

"All know the Way, but few actually walk it." 

- Bodhidharma

The Modern Jazz Quartet, Live in 1964

A snow-melt stream high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Clean, pure. To put my face in that water feels so fine. Is my heart still clean? Still pure? I listen to it beat and it sounds to me like coyotes that are far away, running.

James Lee Jobe

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

- Pablo Neruda

the 1970s  san francisco  

mission st between 2nd st & 16th 

walking distance from both greyhound and trailways buses

run-down diners 

2 egg breakfasts with no meat for $1.25 or so

i could a rent the saddest room in the city for $25 a week

messenger companies hiring  

cheap pot  cheap wine

goodwill and salvation army 1 block over on howard

1 dollar movies on market 1 block the other way

except for work I could go for days without conversation

weekends  a 25 cent streetcar ride to ocean beach

and poetry readings somewhere almost every night 

sit in the back and scribble in my notebook

smoking pot openly on the street never a problem

or spend all day in the stacks at the library

reading forgotten poets from 1910 or 1920

i had no past no future lived day to day

lucky strikes 

street vendor hot dogs 

jack spicer poems

that summertime layer of fog across the city 

and the bay

James Lee Jobe

"Work out your own salvation with diligence."

– The Buddha's last words

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James