Rosamond Press

I took Michael on a tour along Oakland’s Estuary in my Cadillac. We started down on 5th. Street where we once attended a two day party thrown by the Diggers. There were artists down there. Michael took me into a studio of a guy who did pornographic Disney characters.

That’s me and my Caddy in front of Wanda’s Wonderland where we used to wonder about the meaning of life.

Last night I watched the movie ‘All Good Dogs Go to Heaven’. The illustrator depicted old warehouses and fishing shacks on the waterfront. Most of that is gone. That is what Michael and I went looking for in what he titled ‘Johnnie’s Oakland’.

In what may have been our last conversation, Michael mocked me, laughed, and belittled me. He said I never sat in on McClure’s class with my girlfriend, because;

“McClure never let’s anyone sit in on his class.”

“Unless…