Nothing Happens in June
The news in Berlin this morning is about
what you’d expect: a 19-year-old was stabbed
in the back and gut by a stranger
on Möckernstrasse; there was a femicide
of a 34-year-old mother in Köpenick;
a group of neo-Nazis confronted a man
outside a Späti calling him a longhair
and a leftie and a tick. Zecke
is the German word for tick. It’s also a pejorative
for a foreign-looking person.
“Du Zecke!” hollered the neo-Nazi,
then smashed his beer bottle
over the long-haired skull of the tick,
concussing him.
Elsewhere
in the city, a drug dealer was beheaded
by a client
with a machete; a climate change
activist
is nearing death on day 90
of his hunger strike and here
on my street where someone used blue chalk
to scrawl ALLAH IS
A DWARF on the sidewalk, a drunk
is drinking beer from a tennis ball
can.
Horror Sleaze Trash 