/remote-control

they have now renovated the circle at Karpfenteich

there are new benches around the circumference

where a guy sits on one

a mother and her baby in a stroller sit on another

and me writing a poem on the third

the mother whispers into her phone

the guy is thumbing at his

while I write this poem with a pen

in a tiny red moleskine notebook

at home claude is working away

building engineering coding compacting

conversations while the wind rustles the branches

of the trees around us and pushes a set

of darkening clouds over us

but it doesn’t feel like rain

there is just a nice cool respite in the air

from the other days of this hottest summer

on record and from the reminder the Earth is burning

quicker every year

I just hope it stays this way I write or even better

that the headroom I’ve found through /remote-control

allows me to work from even Tenerife where I can play

padel and check in on claude in between sets

and of course I also hope claude can put out

the fires sooner rather than later but also

there are earth quakes in Colombia and wars

in Israel Palestine Ukraine Iran

and in Africa ebola is getting more rampant

due to neglect and inequality of wealth

while the US gets ever stupider by the year