200
                                                     yrs ago none
                                         of these San Francisco
                                                   bldgs existed
                                                                                              200
                                                                           years hence perhaps
                                         today’s bldgs will all
                                       be gone when
     just last week the           first Chinese settlement of
                                                          this city was
            unburied downtown (& that a
                                 mere 120 yrs old) the
                   greatest of all archeological
                                            finds (but
                                some people almost
                                  live that long in one
                               lifetime!) still
          all the bldgs around here of steel &
                     brick look permanent as
                            if they’d been here for-
                                           EVER! &
                         would remain that way for-
                                          EVER more
                 as
        the waitress sum-
                                   marily
                                   wipes
                       my table & the
                       spot of catsup is for-
                                           EVER

                                               gone

                                                        !