Poetry: Adenauerplatz

By Rhianna Varney

I sit and wait at Adenauerplatz.

I have a private lesson in half an hour. You can buy a lot at this station:

pastries, haircuts, and flowers.

It has been raining a lot recently, so I’ve taken shelter here.

I watch the people come and go. They talk, they walk—they disappear.

Earlier today, I hated the world,

but now I feel better about things. How ridiculous—

underground trains! And in the corner, a man sings.

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Rhianna Varney is a writer and musician who graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA (Hons) Creative Writing. She enjoys writing poetry, plays, and prose. Her poem “Waiting” was longlisted for the Finding Peace: Poetry Challenge, run by the Young Poets Network. Her short play Where did he go? was performed at the Traverse Theatre as part of its young writers group. She lives in Berlin.