Equal parts inspired by a tried and true New Yorker teaching West Berliners about jaywalking (red means forward) and Joshua Clover's documenting of the late 2014 Bay Area uprisings via facebook (another night another freeway).
lyrics
red means forward in Berlin
home and homeland are at odds again
stumble through the stacks after work
I don't know you, you look like a jerk
The police are gunning them down
down in the streets
Do you know what Rilke meant when he said what he said:
"I'm sad without reason/malaise is in season again"
I saw the film Wings of Desire
warehouse, industrial, make eyes, inquire
another night another freeway
jump the fence by the bay
another night another freeway
cut the fence by the bay
[an old man walks Potsdammer Platz in black and white]
you touch them, they stultify
destroyer of things
[he stumbles and falls]
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