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Sunday 19 April 2009

The Nelsons in San Roque

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San Roque hub: photo by John Wiley, 28 May 2010



Those bungalows of San Roque
so perfect yet oddly sad
(“a little wood & stucco
to keep the sun out”)
always remind me of
where the Nelson family lived
way back in the days of Hi Oz
Hi Pop Hi Rick Hi David.

Everybody in that family was Okay
every day for a whole decade.
And when Ricky turned out to be
a low rider, it was still okay.
And that’s the way it is today
among the petticoat palms
of Calle Noguera
and Puesta del Sol.

You can’t rain on the parade
of the petit bourgeois
because it doesn’t have one
except at Fiesta
when rain’s against the law.






Ricky, Harriet, David and Ozzie Nelson
: photographer unknown, n.d.
via lost in transmission

Dave, Rick and Harriet


















David, Ricky and Harriet Nelson
: photographer unknown, n.d.






Lauro Canyon Reservoir and upper San Roque
: photo by John Wiley, 18 April 2011

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