Prosa

Why all this talk about the weather? Because it acts as a stand-in for our moods and serves to justify them. Often we don’t know why we’ve had a bad dream, or which foot we got out of bed with. Often enough, we don’t want to know either. In any case, it’s the weather’s fault. If we look more closely, however, the relationship between cause and effect becomes more vague.

for Yuri 

God bless the Fundbüro, said Yuri who was named after Juri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who was the first man in space. Yuri with a Y had often – without knowing it contributed a line or inspired a thought. My mobile phone, an object I was so deeply attached to that I felt enslaved by it, had reappeared. Someone had taken it straight to the lost property office without selling it or keeping it for themselves.