With no need to wait
at Brandenberg gate,
no need to parlez
at Checkpoint Charlie,
the whole Berlin wall
beginning to fall,
and crashing like cards
on stupified guards;
with no need for spies
or double-bluff lies,
safe houses or moles,
for hoods or for proles,
cut, thrust and parry -
what now, le Carré?
(November,
1989)
