Random travel jottings

 

hard to think about there

while immersed in here

 

English cops with machine guns

texting at the airport food counter

flip flop changes over thirty years

back then Spain had armed Guardia Civil

England had old, friendly and unarmed bobbies

 

London, England, a disappointment

expensive, over-rated, under-resourced

cold, rainy and miserable summer

give me Berlin or Malaga any day

comfort in Euro time and ways

 

mitfahrgelegenheit to Stuttgart

disentangle from car at main station

man walks past with koala on his cap

 

new friends offer couch for two weeks

upstairs five Chinese guys in one flat

must be industrial spies says my Schwabian friend

 

so quiet here at night

like no other town I know

 

out on the tiles dancing to techno

helped by friend of friend with treats

dancing grandpa on tour in Benztown

 

new little sister came into my life

seems like I’ve known for lifetimes

my artistic funny playful playmate

 

stuck in my heart like buttons on a sleeve

a renegade Berliner subverting the motor city

with pen and ink and crayons and paper