Wednesday, October 28, 2015

cold blood

When my parents were young, they used to have a little crocodile  from the Nile living in the bathtub. They called him Shovek.
Shortly before I was born, as they came back from a small vacation, the crocodile was gone. 
Bam! Vanished. No one saw him again.
They say he went through the plughole to join his fellows in the New York City sewer system.

There is something wrong, since I came to this cold land. 
My skin got harder, my blood colder.
And every full moon I need to take quiet, long, hot baths.

Sunday, October 18, 2015

te pinté para recordar que estás lejos

recibí tu virgen Peruana, 
tan fucsia  y amarilla y verde y turquesa
me va a proteger los colores durante el invierno
igual que las flores de tu cabeza


Thursday, September 17, 2015

words



there are things to be avoided
if I pronounce it I cry
if I write it I travel to the past

so I remain silent

some radical acts
need to be kept clandestine

Thursday, August 27, 2015

don't fear the elephants

he de posar aquesta cita. i aquesta foto.
les nenes no tenen por dels elefants
 
"I JUST KNEW IN A QUIET WAY I WAS RUINED. 
IF I AGREED TO BE FEMALE. THERE WAS SO MUCH EVIDENCE
ON THE SCREEN AND IN BOOKS. I READ DORIS LESSING 
IN LITERATURE CLASS AND THAT DEPRESSED THE SHIT 
OUT OF ME TOO. I JUST HATED READING WORK BY WOMEN 
OR ABOUT WOMEN BECAUSE IT ALWAYS ADDED UP THE SAME. 
LOSS OF SELF, ENDLESS SELF-ABNEGATION EVEN AS THE FEMALE 
WAS TRYING TO BE AN ARTIST, SHE WOUND UP PREGNANT, DESPERATE,
WAITING ON SOME MAN. A MARXIST GUY, PERHAPS. WHEN WOULD IT END."
Eileen Myles, in her foreword to I Love Dick, by Chris Kraus


S. Kubrick 1948

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

night after night

on thursday I killed her.
I am new, I am a murderer

sunday, I can't stand up from the toilet
the old one is all digested
endless shit

monday.
a whole year has already passed, unnoticed
and he is leaving again
what!?
how many ends does the sausage have?



Friday, August 7, 2015

the woman and the crocodile

reencarnation after reencarnation
they find each other
sooner or later
in every live
the woman and the crocodile








Sunday, July 26, 2015

1/40

only 1/40 th of the sunlight belongs to the blue part of the spectrum.

when the sunlight travels through the air it is scattered in all directions by the tiny particles in the atmosphere.
 
the blue light travels in shorter waves than the red, the yellow, the green... 
 
the intensity of the light scattered by a particle is proportional to the inverse fourth power of the wavelength. 

the blue wins. we see the blue. we see 1/40 th


Sunday, July 19, 2015

el tità Atlas va morir de tristesa

aquest cel de berlin . tan pesat i tan absent . se'ns tira a sobre

cada dia . tan pesat i tan absent . alçar la mirada i no trobar-lo

no veig cap final feliç . gaudir mentre duri . i plorar quan s'acabi 


Saturday, July 18, 2015

Sunday, July 12, 2015

<< Quiero pelarme el culo danzando desnudo al ritmo de tambores paganos alrededor de una hoguera, agradecerle a gritos al universo la bendición del agujero que sus ojos negros abrieron en mí. Y qué si no soltó todas las prendas. Y qué si fue un cabrón persistente y obstinado. Nunca volveré a ser el mismo después de Hank Christian y doy gracias a Dios por ello. >>

TOM SPANBAUER. Yo te quise más

 

Monday, June 29, 2015

sailors

rowing all the way from the Mediterranean to the Maybachufer


Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Sunday, June 7, 2015

a midsummer night's dream

last sunday night I dreamt.
I was about to go to the US for 2 years
that was my plan
I had a flight booked since long ago, and I should leave in a few days
and in the dream I thought, oh berta are you sure you want to leave everything behind?
no I am not.
I don't want to quit my job. I don't want to leave berlin. I don't want to start from scratch again.
I like what I have now
all this weirdness.
I will miss my flight, and I will stay here.
This I dreamt last sunday night
 


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

there is this old cruel secret shared among architects

when a tree is bothering 
the architect knocks into its trunk a copper nail during the night
...within three months the tree will be dead


Monday, May 25, 2015

the 10 last days of the last 487 days

I watched a flower die in my window
          -countdown-
the only goal of time
is to kill

Monday, May 18, 2015

if we were excavators

would we be digging all our life the same hole, until we would find ourselves so deep that we could not drive back up?

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

die deutsche Grammatik macht mich* sehr traurig

am Dienstags und Donnerstags Abends,
bitte, bitte,
stirb mit mir in den klasse

























*thanks K!

Monday, May 4, 2015

did you ever wake up?

-how long does it take to read all the verses?
-the water is not freezing yet...


Monday, April 27, 2015

talk

-don't worry. I am sleepwalking 
-then I will be a plant, so I don't wake you up


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

some of these days...

you're gonna miss me honey
the best concert I danced to since I returned, ages ago...THE EUFORIA IS BACK
Meschiya Lake , Russel Welch &
Dizzy Birds at Bassy

Friday, April 17, 2015

Ring


camina en cercles comptant els que falten
oblida els que ha completat
ignorant d'on bufa el vent

ja no hi ha terminis i tot és sempre al mateix lloc
però a cada volta 
s'enamora de nou




Thursday, April 9, 2015

april 9

this thing, again
it's been a long time

the small pain,
the beauty out there


Monday, April 6, 2015

julia i miniman

barcelona tiene poder 
tiene bars de pirates
plens de mafiosos i de pols,
sense tresor

una lluna de sang,
una nit de primavera ,
una matinada al cangrejo,
paguen sis mesos d'aridesa
i llegeixen el  futur






Friday, March 27, 2015

acelgas

ay ay ay!

when the monkeys from the zoo see you working on your thesis
they discuss in esperanto about all these holes
 
you can't hear the hyenas laughing
they are lost in el desierto

so get strong, machine
and don't stop walking
I come after you






Tuesday, March 24, 2015

zukunft

No t'hi capfiquis, pel futur. Les línies de la teva mà el mostren ben clar:
olor de tancat
moqueta vermella
i bonys a les cames

peeping tom.vader


Tuesday, March 17, 2015

diuen que les plantes s'assemblen als seus amos

Avui m'he llevat amb les cortines noves, 
noves de fa cinc mesos però que no vaig penjar fins ahir. Amb tornavís, perquè el taladro que m'han deixat té el cable massa curt, i no estic segura de poder-lo fer anar sense provocar una catàstrofe. Estan molt arrugades, ja les planxaré.
Que bonic quan entra el sol al matí. Quina falsa primavera.
He reprès la bicicleta, posada a punt després de l'hivernació.
He tirat la carta que vaig escriure ahir a la nit.
I he canviat de llista de reproducció a l'spotify. 
Diu My name is peligro.


Thursday, March 12, 2015

latewinter selfportait

the sun
sometimes
doesn't want to let us forget
that summer is coming







Friday, March 6, 2015

la paciència

diuen que he de tenir paciència
en general. és el consellconsol per a tot.
però com ho fan ells, per tenir paciència?
la roben? n'estalvien? d'on la treuen?

si ja ho sé, que tot és lent i tot vol temps
que el temps és l'únic que fa menys insolucionables les coses insolucionables
que vísteme despacio que tengo prisa
que el que és bo es fa esperar
que mica en mica s'omple la pica
que la paciència és la mare de la ciència
i que bla bla bla

però què hi vols fer
una altra cosa no,
però la paciència la tinc mal col·locada
























sí, el paisatge no hi té res a veure, però a falta de paciència, pinzells

Thursday, February 26, 2015

daydreams


 
I dream a lot when I sleep. Always, every night.
I think I dream about the lifes I lived before this one.

Tonight:
we were lying in bed again and you told me that you decided to go to the war for five years
-what war I don't know, but it was a real war, I mean you were going to kill people and you would probably also die-
What a stupid change of plans

I woke up crying
I guess I had a great love once, that was killed in a war. 
Maybe in ancient China, perhaps in I World War

And still when I am awake I daydream all the time
but whatever I daydream, I never remember it
I wonder if daydreams are about our future lifes

Sunday, February 22, 2015

anar i venir

torna i marxa i torna a marxar
i en un miratge breu
divisa entre la boira
un home llop que s'allunya dels monstres


Thursday, February 12, 2015

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

PinkPipe












he came out from the deepest waters of the Spree and took an old rusted building as a shell
near the Tiergarten S-Bahn