Berlin: a live wire
Berghain clubbers
Frankfurter Allee, drug addicts
Neukölln, mad zombies

Expression of beauty and ugliness –
preferable to repression

At summer solstice,
music emanates from every nook and cranny

Drawn here like a moth to a fermenting orchard,
to the Dionysian underworld

The underground man,
utilising jouissance,
compelled by the possibility of destruction

Yet speed kills,
and he began to recognise limits

The teacher of chill shows him a different way

Broccoli Soup at her flat on Worther Strasse:
we eat it together, looking out the window,
zoning out,
stress and worries
dissipating like vapour in a calm breeze

Tension eases in the shoulders,
breathing slows down,
the 10,000 things rise and fall

Wholesome habits pump the breaks
to regain control of the wheel

Circadian rhythms,
flowing conversation,
domestic Zen,
a home in the sprawl

We meet the musician Seth Faergolzia,
who is playful, handmade, unpretentious,
close to ordinary life

A mighty oak!
His cockatiel whistling is hilarious and joyful

Hulk to snail
jouissance to nature
cat to dog

Peace is possible