Terrible dances at last
        Cast the rainbow
        For a dunk low
        Grow your own beans
        But make it slow
        Enjoy the silence
        Wherever you can
        Cannonballs grow on trees —

Don’t you know?

On the surface we leave
Footprints on doorsteps
What a concept
Leave it on the ground
Coffee on the floor
Noises of a toddler
Not too amused by sitting at the door
The human ability of moving fast
Makes the Earth smaller
But issues last —

        Are issues problems?
        Or possibilities?

It’s a state of mind!

Don’t you see?

Commonly known as the capital sea
Shells are there to break
Fish to swim in water
And not into a dish
Make yourself comfortable —

Don’t you wish?

Don’t you mention
The war ever before
Store all your belongings
Make it to the shore
Of the darkest river
The universe untimely created —

        Or was it God?

It’s the mention we always rated
And hated
Sometimes I struggle with the rhyming
Right now I miss dining —

Don’t you dish?

But I’m on my way
When the train stopped
I’m right here
On my prefered spot
At the Hofbräuhaus in Berlin
There was another reason for me going here
In this alcohol sodden sphere
The house is full
Like being in a hive with just drones
Asian families love the atmosphere
They were forced to buy lederhosen
And wearing them with pride
But their children are overwhelmed
By so much German dining culture
I’m almost expecting Hubert Aiwanger arriving for a speech
So he can teach
All the foreigners
That they are allowed to spend money
But forbidden to share room and space
With the local race —

I got an original Wiener Schnitzel
With surprisingly good Bavarian potato salad
A few touristic mini cards —

        I really love such stuff!

I got a few touristic photographs
I got four postcards with tiny bricks from the wall
Those were why I came here for —

The dinner
The photos
The mini cards
I simply got for the mehrwert

Did that word make it to the English dictionary already?

If not
You should take it
And use it
The most lehnwords from German to English
Are negatively connotated
Mehrwert is positive
And possibly the most German
You’ll get out of a word
At all —

My train from Berlin
Was a little late
When it arrived in Senftenberg
But my next train
Came rolling behind us
An actual joke of a train
Capacity of about fifty
Came rolling from Cottbus
To take in about one-hundred firty more
Adding to those who were already in —

But in the end
I caught all six trains today
Arrived both of my targets on time
Got everything I wanted
Not bad for a Sunday
With Deutsche Bahn.

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        © Dominik Alexander / 2023