Yesterday we went into Santa Barbara and just hung around for a few hours. It was pretty fun, we found this cool little music store with records and cds, it reminded me a lot of something that would be on Haight Street in SF. Fun stuff. Then I had some ice cream and we sat in the square, just watching the world go by. People are funny. This is just a little fluff thinking back on last night.

Santa Barbara Lights

The dark streets lined with
bright locked doors,
what kind of person locks a kid
out of a chocolate shop?
It was only 7:30 pm.

Walking down the
not-so-deserted sidewalk,
it came alive at night,
chatting and bustling under the stars,
you could kind of see them
even with the streetlights.

Music coming through shop windows,
or a man on a bench with an empty guitar case,
the new-aged demo of a record shop blasting
an old lilting tune from a restaurant
or pulsing deep from a club.

Wandering the southern city,
friends flanking sides,
laughing at the world going by
under the Santa Barbara lights.

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