Poems to Berlin

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FANNY HENRIET



Roll roll roll on home From club back to your kiez Merrily merrily merrily merrily Dancing to the beats

Stroll stroll stroll on home It’s time to get some sleep weaving and wavering Don’t trip over your feet.

Go go go on home

Berlin will never sleep 24 hours there to let down your hair Later rise, again dive in deep. Sandy

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In Your Face: German Elections Today Berliners go to the polls to elect a face for their political

Faces

goals.

burned in my brain from the campaign litter, thousands of faces giving me the jitters. Annoying posters all over town,

down! Auf Wiedersehen (not)!

now it’s time to take them

Mark W.

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Mitte: Noisy But Pretty Monbijouplatz I hated you. And yet, I loved you too. So incredibly loud. A cacophony of sound. High in my penthouse cloud. The views so profound. Laura F.

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Berlin Wall Peddlers

History on sale. One chunk for only twenty dollars Look at this one, it’s full of bullet holes this one is stained with deserters’ blood and see these two dark holes they were burned by an anxious gaze

the remains of cold war on this one still make you tremble and what we have here are the dancing footprints of the youth and the shouting and clapping when a heavy chain tore it down Our supply is abundant after the Berlin Wall we’ll tear down the walls between the rich and the poor the fortunate and the unfortunate the oppressors and the oppressed and of course we always have the inexhaustible walls between the hearts of indifference William Warr

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When the Berlin Wall Fell

When the Berlin Wall fell, dear Fau Schubert, I began dreaming migraines. Multilingual migraines, no preservatives. Bulging freedom, the excess weight of the united countries, began peering in through my window. Its eye-I wonder what it’s thinking. Iwa Lipska

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FANNY HENRIET


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