Berlin\u2019s blueprints were drawn up with a pogostick
\nMeasured in the highs and lows and
\nGrandmaster plans of allies and enemies.<\/p>\n
You see Berlin on the pogostick
\nBouncing over jagged concrete memories
\nof the torn down wall and
\nTouching down in the basement art shows
\nwhere gravity
\nAnd creativity
\nAnd bizarre performance pieces
\nAnd the freedom to do so
\nSuck you in.<\/p>\n
Catching air with all the potential energy of the spring It catapults you over P-patches sprouting Handlebars grasped but unanchored to the past Heart lurching in your throat for Only a hop, skip, and jump away Footpegs like public transit and museum fare Jumping between then and now Berlin\u2019s blueprints were drawn up with a pogostick Measured in the highs and lows and Grandmaster plans of allies and enemies. You see Berlin on the pogostick Bouncing over jagged concrete memories of the torn down wall and Touching down in the basement art shows where gravity And creativity And bizarre performance pieces And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[59,80,81,87,83,27,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe pogostick lets you fly by Mitte<\/em>\u2019s
\nparks lined with Spatie<\/em> stores
\npublic drinking at twilight
\nAnd sticking it to the clubs, bouncers and covers
\nby making night
\nthe new hotspot.<\/p>\n
\naround Tempelhof<\/em>\u2019s abandoned airport runway
\nwindsurfed on skateboards
\nSunbathed by nudists
\nReplacing the Nazis, replaced by the Soviets, unhanded
\nby the Americans.<\/p>\n
\nModern wings are forged in capitalism\u2019s expanse
\nOf rising rents and crowding space
\nto reach a bird\u2019s eye view in the developer\u2019s cranes
\nover politicians in the Bundestag<\/em>
\nElecting the capital\u2019s motto
\n\u201cPoor, but Sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPink triangles burned
\nAnd ashes scattered in the grainy film
\nOf twisting tongues, taboo and fascism
\nnow laid to rest
\nAt the gates of Tiergarten<\/em> park<\/p>\n
\nFrom the block of an East-West memorabilia mash up
\nAnd the cement block faux coffins
\nTilting to the trend of turning a profit
\non companies complicit in
\nHolocaust
\nmemorialization.<\/p>\n
\ngive you a degree of separation between
\nyour soles
\nand lost souls
\nmarked by brass stars inlaid in the footpath
\nThrough the old Jewish quarter
\nAnd office cabinets filled with Stasi<\/em> files on every Berliner,
\nEvery suspect
\nEvery victim
\nEvery visitor
\nDotting an ongoing but relentless
\nPace between memory and past.<\/p>\n
\nEast and West
\nUps and downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"