7/23/2018 Volcano By Darling FitchVolcano "The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano." -Gustav Stresemann, 1929 How do you love a city that's all surface A proud layer of grime on the window of a train That rumbles uneven circles around and around A lumpy public drunkenness you can no longer afford How do you love a city that will stare and stare But never make eye contact A city where the myth of walking home un-accosted Still seals the lips of anyone longing for sympathy A city that knows you're hurting And likes it that way A city on the shit-end of a new beginning Controlling austerity with rolled up notes How do you love a city that tore down its wall And replaced it with a thousand bouncers Death strip throbbing with bad techno And heads throbbing with the Kopfschmerz of Furtive bumps off keys soon to be lost Somewhere between never-ending supposed utopia And puking in the canal Where Rosa was killed for trying to lift the lid off A city that still thinks it's better than America How do you love a city that never finishes what it started, Just moves on to something worse A city of cultural Zwischenmiete Where predetermined eviction of dreams and bodies is public knowledge And no one is wanted for too long Every previous inhabitant a ghost Paradise lost her mind playing in the shell Of a city cleared by investors and a genocide that's too cliche to mention But the streets are gold with it The whole of this city is dancing Uneven circles around and around On the edge of itself At the center of everything It claims to keep distant Dangling marionettes over errant flames And waiting for the inevitable drop To really get the party started ![]() Darling Fitch is an American-born, Berlin-based writer, musician and performance artist whose compositions often grapple with issues of collective and individual identity. Their work has appeared in festivals internationally, including the Dixon Place HOT! Fest, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Month of Performance Art – Berlin. In addition to performing regularly in Berlin and abroad, Fitch runs the local performance series Yes/No/Other/All: Performance on the Boundaries of Identity. www.darlingfitch.com Photo credit: Aurora Romano Photography Comments are closed.
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