Psychogeographic Map Walking my Dog to the Lake and Back

{{Charlottenburg, Berlin Germany}}

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Snow last night, my black and white dog
insane in her delight, runs wide circles
as hail bounces off my face.

A train rumbles by overhead.  The underpass covered
in graffiti. A timeless kind of communiqué:
the Visigoths wrote on slate,

and the Anglo-Saxons used gall, nuts, and wine
to fill horns with ink to create
this kind of frescoed conversation.

Carved in town squares with awls and pumice
like this covered passage where mattress
fortresses create individual bedrooms,

stacked reusable coffee cups plead for offerings.
Grafitti overhead, Scheiß auf die Reichen!
or fuck the rich. A lone man wags

his knee above a tatty blanket,
reading on his phone. My dog licks his hand.
Our shadows linked in winter’s light……….

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