IPOpallooza Gentrification Math

March 24, 2019

# of San Francisco
10 grand electric bikes
+ 5 million-dollar apartments
will expand exponentially
among early-joining coders
who [at least previously]
were far left-leaning
Democratic Socialists
or Green New Deal activists
soon as Uber, Pinterest, Lyft
Airbnb + Slack go public.

 

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Gerry Sarnat, MD  is first place winner of the ‘Poetry in the Arts’ Dorfman Prize and is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. His most recent book is Melting the Ice King (2016). His writing has appeared in Main Street Rag, Los Angeles Review, the New York Times and others.

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