3119 FILLMORE STREET

3119 FILLMORE STREET

3119 doesn’t exist anymore except maybe

in Hopi or some other dreamscape

maybe in ye old hipster’s drunken stupor

sunlight inhabiting his sore eyes

pain in the brain cavity,

you awake to the next day

time and comfort indeterminable

the space was long and narrow like a bowling alley

now a renovation combined what was once Six Gallery

with the rest of the building.  “That’s cityspace”

a restaurant reviewer wrote when sketching the history

sadly only going back a decade or two reporting the change-over

from closed Kasa Indian Eatery to Tacko,

a restaurant with “Tacos/Lobster Rolls/ Burritos”

painted below the Tacko sign

There is no shrine but there is a plaque

3119 doesn’t exist except in the mythological present

the space was an auto repair garage,

a rug store (“Silkroute International”)

the shops change

couldn’t stop twice

in the same storefront’s foot mat

if I was there on the block of Fillmore between Filbert and Pixley Street

I’d have a whiskey at The Comet Club (Established 1912)

The Comet a time factor in the swirling maze that is memory

By the reality of this Club, next door to nevermore 3119

found in old photos and via Google Earth

The Marina District, once Cow Hollow

3119 Six Gallery Reading

Friday October 7, 1955 in San Francisco

sent out around a hundred postcards announcing the reading

Ginsberg wrote on the post cards

would be angels on the stage

                         ---Alan Casline