16 November 2023
suffering from socks
<in the Café Luzia in Berlin>
my socks keep running
down my feet
bunching up inside
my shoes
but I am still prancing down
the streets
of Autumn Kreuzberg.
the canal foliage is alive
with a vengeance, or an apology,
for its unrelenting grey
when I last strolled through it
in the winter of 2022.
(there was really no way around the death of it)
Autumn Berlin flirts with me now,
and I could go on and on
walking with my socks
bunched up inside my shoes.
<the waiter just kindly brought a candle to my table as i scribble furiously>