in berlin

we can walk / on the grass / in grey drizzle / outside the cathedral / through the fat botero's / the naked men / and women / the cats horses babies / around / the fountain / maternity dances / hollow bronze / brown and blacks / a sphinx / eve / a woman / with fruit / a woman seated / a woman reclined / a man / walking / unser glaube / ist der sieg der / die welt / überwunden hat / second hand / gas masks / second hand police caps / enameled / red stars / volkspolizei lapel badges / now / for the spree / the luna / the sachsen / and brasil / the brandenburg / to treptow / star / and circle pennants / riverside / snacks / closed / grandma's recipe / closed / drugs / graffito / nothing new / here / aurora / heiterkeit / frohsinn / and the stone / the memorials / to / those who perished / for example / when the heimatland / went down / those children / lost / and now the yellow cycle / of the postman / now in the rose garden / by the russian arch / the avenue / the trees / the fallen / leaves / tidily swept away / piled / into the corners / the stork / feeding the fox / ewiger ruhm / den kämpfern / die ihr leben / hingegeben / the sword / splits the hackenkreuz / the man kneels / with a kiss / to a standard / the dead in rubble / and ruins / stone planes / and tanks / stone fires / and flowers / and hammers / and stone sickles / play out / für die befreiung / der menscheit / von nazi / knechtshaft / the free / flying sparrows / the ragged / autumnal ruins / of roses wild / summer / not long / gone to dancing / midges / sleepy ducks / and one / mute swan / gliding on / bleak brown / water / the dozen / seagulls / the rushed / woman / the one / with the pimple / at the end / of her nose / bursting / through / the snaked queue / she aims / for the boat / aims / for the cafeteria / aims / for a toilet stop / perhaps / and now / me / shivering on the rainswept prow / the boat's reversing turn / and then / its nose chugging / to the allianz / a tower / to myself / through old berlin / with echoing commentary / what's to see / to the left / the west / what's to see / to the right / the east / now under / the treptower / station bridge / and the red brick / oberbaum brücke / the willows / weeping / on the west bank / a remnant / of berlin wall / cartoon signatures / remnants / of a fallen bridge / rescue the ice factory / bomb my planet / hunched one pulls / hard on a cigarette / a solitary angler / and the group / with the pimpled woman / spill onto the deck / a man / stands / next to me / he smokes / furiously / the silver foldaway ashtray / magically produced / at jannowitze brücke / the sauerland group / they board / the poseidon passes / with a few waves / then back into the spree / again / the furious smoker / is back / next to me / with his celebrated ashtray / the green light is on / and we enter / a lock / mühlendamm / andromeda waits / in a parallel lock / temporary halt / to proceedings / and someone coughs / in the perfumed smoke / which envelopes me / but disperses / soon when we move / berlin / city of peace / nikolaiviertel / collecting / names of boats / milan and monbijou / carola / spree lady / phönix / stern / bellevue / condor / neptun / franziska / pinguin / and captain morgan / a city resurrecting itself / the reichstag / the clean cut / glass / and concrete lines / how white / the bundeskanzleramt / the sun pokes through / briefly and disappears / a trumpeter plays / some say sadly / in front of the new / and bombastic / bahnhof / the neon / riverside beach / of deckchairs / and palm trees / a politician / with a poster grin / immigrants influence / home cultures / martin luther / bridge / where autumn leaves fall into water / the moabiter / bridge / and / four iron bears / more willows / weeping / more / graffito / boycott / mcburger / make for the platz / der luftbrücke / the berlin air bridge / to view / an alsatian / with a silver collar / taking a crap / on the grass / beside the monument / a large stick in its teeth / and two large and loud men / engaged / in a drunken brawl / and so / to the theatre / of the broken / windows / now on / the trams / and trains / too many / windows / all / heavily scarred / and scratched / not unlike / through fog / s-bahn / u-bahn / perhaps / so we / the travellers / can't look outside  / a berliner / & a kindl bier / topography !! of terror ! now  the destination !