Moment n time

Corner of Hearst and Shattuck, outside the Berkeley Espresso joint

- Three women, one with her yoga mat slung over her shoulder, talking to an artist, selling his art out of a box, attached to his bicycle.
- Two 65 mustangs, one black, clean, concours, the other ratty, primered, with a no hood, revealing a highly modified and chromed 427 Cobra motor, blat blatting unevenly waiting at the stop light.

Light changes and both mustangs launch for an impromptu block-long drag race, squealing tires and thundering the air with noise, exhaust and tire smoke and adrenaline.

The artist doesnt stop talking, and the women wander into the coffee-shop singing the disco hit "Shake Your Booty".

As it quiets down to the genteel murmur of North Berkeley, no one turns their head.

I feen for a camera.