Let’s Talk About Walls (ZTw s2 e39)

I dared to ask what on earth was going on in Gaza and was met by a wall of silence

Why didn’t the free kick go straight in?

It really stood out in Berlin, I’m telling you

They get in the way. They separate us from each other. They come between where you are and where you want to be.

We keep building them, though.

You can jump over them, tunnel underneath them, blow them up, sometimes even go round them altogether.

They’re called walls for a reason.

The reason is the wall itself.

They’re better than holes, though.

• Heen & Sheen Martínez, the original Zaragoza Twins, November 2023, from the Ebro to the Med.