Berlin’s ‘Newspaper Poet’ Walks in a Long Line of Eccentricsbr "Was there a stiffness in his fingers?" Next, he adds cheeky rhyming lines about the scandals of the day, from German diesel emissions to tainted Dutch eggs,br and after checking the arts section, might wind up with a mini-paean to a cultural phenomenon like "the killer new ‘Blade Runner.’ " Fifteen minutes later, poems memorized, Mr. Bleck set off on foot for the restaurant Paris Moskau, his first stop of the night.br Mr. Poschardt said that I was always fascinated by him,br That tonight, everything ends.’ " So far, in the 20 years Mr. Bleck has been workingbr as the German capital’s unofficial "newspaper poet," that night has yet to come.br " Mr. Bleck said. that Studies show it’s much easier to concentrate on the printed word,br that you can pay a lot more attention without things flashing at you all the time,br Sabine Dozel said that It touches the heart,br "The guy I was working for said, ‘That won’t do!’ " Then Mr. Bleck remembered thebr Christmas poems he had to recite as a child before he could receive his presents.