DEF POETRY JAM - STEVE CONNELL & SEKOU THE MISFIT

America Calls:



"Anyway - I gotta run...
still gotta create a few jobs, purge a few voter lists,
catch a few terrorists.

... before you wake up and start complaining
about every choice you allowed me to make on your behalf.
...
Thank You for making this easy!"

BACK FROM BERLIN

I just came back from a short trip in Berlin,
catching up with friends I hadn't seen for a while.


Thanks to Sesamoel for the great view of Ost-Berlin from the 19th floor.

And the one thing that strikes me, everytime I'm there is that
the city's face changes all the time,
everything is renewed and modernised,
changed.

And the architecture is beautiful.
Paris and Rome may be impressive, but with all the space available in Berlin,
the buildings' peculiarities and structure are so accentuated.

Prices are incredible for a Western European capital.
It probably has to be like that because with the unemployment rate at 16.3%
(and even more in Mitte, the central part) it's one of the highest in Germany.
Housing is really cheap, too. Imagine a 250sqm. flat in Central London for 1500 €.

And finally people: they stay unpretentious, cool and really friendly
and actually drive that change. From the (admittedly superficial) impressions I had
it's a juicy cultural mix in equilibrium.