16 May 2022

I am ahead of and behind on everything. We take a late lunch, little pockets of meat and borscht, making jokes in German and practicing my sharp S. The rumpumpum of unfamiliar language, outside of the outsiders, suspended in Berlin, trying to say anything, trying not to fall asleep.

Little square pennant flags in warm colors hang in rows above a courtyard, the wall behind them filled with graffiti.

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