Blood In The Streets

California Dreamin

Ada Fia 

Ada Fia goes jogging 
Down the Great Highway
In a pair of orange underwear
Stolen from 850 Bryant
Holding a sign saying rob me
While carrying a rusted saxophone
That he can be seen cavorting in
The sea raging with lunacy like
Clockwork every evening at 8:34
He clamors to the shore in those skivvies
To recite poetry and honk out obscene
Morose echoes of possibly once known
Sanity
The rangers just watch as he exits the water
Goes jogging back to his hovel behind the
San Francisco Zoo
No one has yet accepted the offer to Rob
The poor man in his underwear shivering
Like a starving ghost as the commuters
Zoom on by, not in the least beguiled.

Ada Fia
Likes every now and then to go buy a cheap
New wallet and leave his old one with a two
Dollar bill sitting on the sidewalk of Mission
And Sixth, where he sits  on the steps of the US Mint with his phone filming 
The ensuing skepticism of all the people who walk by it as if it were a wounded dog trying to
Speak English, to explain in plaintive tones it has some intrinsic value, that it's ok to touch...
Eventually a homeless soul reaches out and smiles as they pocket the two dollar bill. Ada Fia has a whole You Tube Channel filled with little movies of people avoiding the wallet until one brave soul dares. 

Ada Fia likes to glue an especially rare coin to the sidewalk outside of Sotheby's door and watch as the well coiffed collectors try and try futilely to remove it, each looking about over their shoulders like a runaway slave trying to make sure they aren't being watched. Ada Fia has taken the time to formulate a unique epoxy that only he has the solvent for and every time
At exactly 8:34am he removes the coin and posts his videos while having a nice cup of cocoa wrapped up in his foil blanket enjoying a plate of goodies hijacked from the Rainbow Grocery dumpster. Ada Fia is a vegan who likes to go to Animal Republic in Berkeley and talk to all the passerbys about the benefits of cannibalism, says we shouldn't put our chemical laden bodies into the earth in a corrosion proof box, argues with all the DXE head honchos and can be seen outside the Butcher's Son waving a placard, " If God didn't want us to eat people, then why are they made out of meat? "

Ada Fia is many things, but among them you may never count him as bored...
Ada Fia protests the long running Goth club using a lynched man as a logo and all the powdered white patrons ignore him and pass a mirror between themselves fecklessly
Ada Fia can't decide what pronoun to use
Ada Fia says everything tastes like chicken
Chicken Chicken
Psycho Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken Adobo in a Dojo with a Dobro
And a portrait of Nancy Reagan not crying
At Ronnie's funeral. Ada Fia tries every day to sneak a camera into the courtrooms of various counties, where he records random dialogue and cuts it up to play as a lullaby for the tigers who have learned to just ignore the funny man in orange underwear who lives in a hovel

Behind the Zoo.

ADA FIA-Written by Embers Jackson

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Consider myself a bassist who likes to learn other instruments as well. I find that when you have a home studio  you must learn to get your point across at least and nobody else is available as you when it comes to catching your thoughts so I forced myself to learn as many instruments as possible

Since Jeff picked up the guitar at age 15 to help him get over a broken heart, he has never put it down. His deepest wound has become his greatest gift. He has been writing songs of lost love, spiritual longing, and questing in his search for the self ever since.

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Primarily, I am a published poet who is active in the Sacramento scene as a performer and musician.
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