Berlin in February

Andie McDowell in a public bubble,

David Beckham in his undies,

Whitney Houston in the news,

Cambodia in the cinemas,

Tobacco smoke and Sweet Home Alabama in the bars…

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snow/snow and grit/wet grit/more snow and grit/more snow, with

tough, flash, sensible automobiles,

and rampant bears and subzero joggers,

and sledding and skating on Sundays like Bruegel biscuit tins.

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a metro with no gates;

a town with no hills;

a vertically flattened world that pushes for the sky.

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