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Sitting on the Berlin Wall

Rattle / March 22, 2011

January 1990 On my way back to Belfast I wandered past Bebelplatz,smelled the air for burning books, glanced at Brandenburg […]

Rattle / March 18, 2011

Sometimes when we lie in bedyou turn your back asking for a scratch.With my left hand I hold my bookand

Rattle / March 17, 2011

Of course, when I think about fun,I think of a man in a short buckskin skirt,shirtless, walking down the streetof

Rattle / March 14, 2011

wants Pancho Villa, Dead or Alive, Shirley Temple mooning, Lincoln still watching the play in his stove-pipe hat.

Rattle / March 12, 2011

I’m upstairs in my teenage bedroom, lights out,listening to WABC, Cousin Brucie, under the covers,my hair so tightly wound around

Rattle / March 11, 2011

We spent those stifling endless summer afternoons on hot front porches, cutting paper dolls from Sears catalogs, making up our