Status Updates From Berlin Tales (City Tales)

The street smelled of dogs and pre cooked meals

We don't need tear gas, we have plenty of reasons to cry

Not having been born in a capital city was a second class destiny, I thought, even when the city was capital of a ridiculous state.

"There was impeccable noodle soup followed by mashed potato and giblets. We ate until we were unrecognizable."

"He sees the street lying there, poor but rich in promise, the same as a hundred others & quite unique, & he can't bring himself to abandon it to a future as dark as the inside of a coffin."

"If Berliners didn't exist, the telephone would have invented them"

"Recognizing cities is linked to deciphering the pictures they speak to themselves while they dream."