MetelKova (april 2006)

I dont mean to be in your face
but you promised us this s[ace
so we shall stand with arms linked
for two years without lights or sink
For Metelkova

Truly before us came Christiana
but we are the heart of Ljubljana
paint and sing to know you´re free
living growing our precious tree
of Metelkova

so when you find yourself a drift
go to the barracks with the colorful facelift
have a coffee smoke a joint
and speak your mind cuz thats the point
of Metelkova

******This is the area of Ljubljana Im staying in, its a city within a city promised to the people of Slovenia for artist expression. This whole poem which I wrote like 10 minutes ago is based on a conversation and the actual words of the people who squatted here to get the land. The area is a beautiful collective of street art, graffiti, galleries and 10 music clubs in an area smaller than a city block. It used to be the former military Barracks. Christiana (sp?) is an area in kopenhagen devoted to roughly the same thing, but is supposedly a little more sketchy and drug inhabited, anyway thought i would start with a new one******