Nunsexmonkrock Side B
"Get high on yourself baby
You
The revolution"
It wasn’t Reagan chirping away
That brought down the Berlin Wall
It was Nina Hagen brawling like a sprung spider
From a death crack in the wall
She understood its graffitied brick and steel
Was but a trembling empty web
Before the CIA ever did
She
A wound-up special weapon of orange and green wired hair
"Born from Xixax"
Safety pins looped through her ear lobes
Pull! Throw!
Clamped hair to her armpits tattooed eyelids of Ra
Rants like Linda Blair rising from her bed
To the ceiling
Half a sentence growled German the other harmonic English
Demon angel of Opera Punk and Gospel
Guttural laughs
Lunatic bass synthesizers and guitars
Wishes Mr. Brezhnev a happy birthday reunion from the junkie "UFOs
Who did it
The Holy Spirit"
And "Hans Hans" her lover her anti-christ her double agent
Conjuring LA earthquakes
And her baby daughter to the sun-beamed dust balconies of Mars
The Stasi didn’t know what to do with her
The prophet the chosen one
But to kick her out to the other side
With a good luck to you all
Over there in West Berlin and New York City
It wasn’t an old man with nuclear tips
Who changed the world
But an outrageous young singer anarchist
A barbed wire flower with a forked tongue
Who did not demand to be free
Because
She was
Already free
That’s when the wall came down and communism collapsed.
Copyright © Robert Trezise Jr. | Year Posted 2024
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