michiko's life
J.
As the plane touched down at Tegel, Michiko glanced at her watch. A feeling of alienation ran across her, flying still made her question life's givens. If we could take off in the air so fast, cross continents while sleeping, then what could be taken as truly axiomatic. Michiko, not being one to get caught in that neurotic web of what-ifs, set her mind to the task at hand, getting her luggage. Then, always trying to stay one step ahead of the game, she started working out the details necessary to get the Cartiér system back to Tokyo from Berlin. U-bahn to Hackesher Markt, S-bahn to Warschauerstrasse, then a walk to the closed down former East-Berlin factories. It's been nearly 20 years since the wall came down, but those factories in the fields around Treptower Park look like a postcard "of the people" circa 1979.
