SCRIPT

Hackescher Markt S-Bahn No.9

Two women board together

It is the summer solstice

Street names are changing hourly

Communists killed by Nazis are the first names to be removed
The names of fighter pilots are allowed to stay

I hear one woman say to the other are you GDR dreaming again?

You have to change trains if you want to see the place where Rosa Luxemburg was murdered and sunk into the Landwehrkanal

When we reach the Reichstag I notice that the woman facing East has climbed onto the lap of the other woman who is facing West

They start kissing while passing though the largest construction site in the world

Ten stops down people are debating whether to remove the statues of Marx and Engels from the Marx-Engels Forum

They change seats. One bites the back of the other's neck,
while denying any GDR dreaming.

The American Embassy is surrounded by barbed wire and Polizei.
America is precision bombing again.

One woman has her head in the other's lap.

Her index finger traces the other woman's lower lip and then disappears inside her mouth

There is a red fox in the Tiergarten

Martha Ronk
Translation for Rotbahn
(Runs as subtitle text on bottom monitor)

Homology is in the tracks we track along
an illusory parallel where a rose is a rosa lost
erased by who is conducting
where who we are determines where weve been
the book has slid under the seat
you are coming into
the present and, alas it is also the past

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