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« CIM Article Jan/Feb 2010 | Main | Mandatprozess »
Saturday
Jan022010

Useless Repetition

Copenhagen 2009

Impotency repeats itself at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. In 1987 I wrote a poem about the powerlessness of the powers to at in the Reykjavik Peace Conference. Nothing has changed since.

The poem was written and published in German:

Frieden (Reykjavik '87)

trigeminusnerv des kleinen mannes

lustobjekt machtgeiler schauspieler

durchgekaut wie bubble gum
jede gelungene blase platzen lassend

wie lange noch auf unserem rücken

unsere geduld strapaziert sich selbst

noch ist es das bequemste
augen ohren und mund
ängstlich zu schliessen

nötigenfalls mit ausgebreiteten armen den tod erwarten
bettelnd um erlösung
von der schuld die ein jeder
von uns zusätzlich zu tragen hat

You can find the original poem from Kopfgeburt at the fully pubished book site KOPFGEBURT by Jens Thieme. Please also check out my other book M.O. at the fully pubished book site M.O. - und andere Geschichten aus dem Vierten Reich by Jens Thieme.

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