After the Wall (1991)
You are now a possibility in the whole country, // traversing the once-border—that no one sees—
You are now a possibility in the whole country, // traversing the once-border—that no one sees—
We were not duped by capitalism and didn’t desire
exploitation, and a lot of us saw Western consumerism as both shallow and wasteful. It’s more because of our poverty and powerlessness than our intelligence that in the end all we got in Eastern Europe was neoliberal capitalism. After all, even American citizens, empowered, enlightened individuals, have been unable to stop its ruthless progress.