I took a ride from Thieplatz to Krumme Lanke Then went the other way to Kudamm again I didn’t know any word in the language but ‘nein’ and ‘danke’ But I had a one-day pass on the U-bahn train Somewhere between Wittenberg Platz and Pankow I heard the banjo as two Rumanians played They took a coin from me without as much as a ‘thank you’ But when they got off at the next stop I wished they’d stayed -- A man and a woman announced they’d check our passes I took out mine and looked out at the weather They spokе for a while to a Turkish woman in glasses And then at Mеndelssohn Bartholdy Park they got off together I saw abandoned lots and cranes and trees go flashing And all the spaces that were once No Man’s Land At Potsdamer Platz, history was passing And glass buildings rose where a new future was planned -- By the time I got to Friedrichstrasse, the temperature was dropping I saw the East before me, as it was today The ghost of Brecht stood among people shopping I was looking for the synagogue; an old man showed me the way In a plush café in a ruin, I wrote a letter I said, ‘Things were made, then burned, then made again The East was lost and found, and it feels much better I’m still here, drinking coffee at five past ten.’ -- When I got back to Dahlem, it was after midnight The place was as calm as when the Americans made it I was thinking of opening the door and going in to sleep tight But couldn’t find the key, and thought I had mislaid it As I stood there, a girl went past running Her hair was red and gold; she caught my eye She said, ‘Hey, your face is full of yearning Don’t stand here shivering under the night sky The world is one now, we’ll all be one here Black, white, brown, we’ll all be free I’m from the US. Each night I run here On my way to my rented flat in Clayallee.’ * * *
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