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Your Berlin (Pre-November 1989)

let's go back to your Berlin
pre-November 1989
to your upper room of wonder
in a more defiant time

even when guards did their rounds
searchlights never found

your quiet revolution
wordless wisdom, prairie mind

watchtowers and barbwire in the landfill
death strip dogs make gentle pets
you took on your own dismantling
with speech tours in great halls

not a thought now goes unsaid
preying ones have the key to your head
what happened to...
your quiet revolution

paintings from prison, prairie mind
even when guards did their rounds
searchlights never found

your quiet revolution
wordless wisdom, prairie mind