Ghost Town
Ghost Town, 2017.
This poem is a snap shot of how my mind would quickly digress as I sat at my desk that looks over the neighborhood Ghost Town in Oakland where I lived during my time at Cal. From my small dark room I felt like a fly on the wall and also trapped. I fed off of the culture that downtown Oakland provided but I also like I was the brunt of a housing shortage.
James
Payne
English, Minor in History and Creative Writing
| UC Berkeley
Literature
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B.A. English, Minor in History and Creative Writing (2017), Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, 2017