FOR JACK SPICER

I’m out of touch with stars. The bar’s
closed. We go groggy down Grant
to Columbus to the Park to somebody’s parked car.
One of us says, Let’s go to Ebbe’s. Ebbe says,
Sure, why not, let’s go. We’re gone
piled in the back seat breathing wine on windowpanes.
Seven Years ago. Tonight

you’re gone. Maybe that night it was
Marco who fell back on the bush.
We left him there to sleep it off.

-David Meltzer

Berklee’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

The current sign features a poem written by the American poet and writer David Meltzer (1937-2016), who belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance. Levinson lived in the San Francisco Bay Area

The song is dedicated to his friend the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) who studied and worked at Berkeley University and belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance, and his poem appears on this track Click for sign's details