Some Berlin Museum Inspired Poetry

 While at the Neue National Gallerie on Sunday and Hamburger Bahnhof today I had the pleasure of seeing some amazing contemporary art, and I wrote some poetry inspired by some of the pieces I saw. So here's some of that!

Erie Shore/Kitaj/NNG

Razor blade chin strap

Yellow walrus sea

Filing cabinet sunsets

and Safety pin trees

Acrobat windows 

and Rope-burn breasts

Wooden boat theaters

and two-comb jests.

Secret Painting/NNG

I want to paint a picture

and splatter it with black

so no one will know 

what's underneath 

but me. 

And I want to paint a new face

over this one I have now

and tell everyone 

what they're missing

and that I'm quite the sight to see. 

A Monument to the Future/Beuys/HB

It's when human heads

are cannon fodder 

that we've gone too far

and cannot turn back. 

I am excited to go to even more museums tomorrow! Berlin just provokes creativity and innovation from every person who enters it. I can't believe tomorrow is our last full day here, and I could honestly stay here for another month and not see everything I want to see.

Bis bald!