Thursday, November 14, 2013

FW: The casualties of the first world war

 

Nightmare

On a pole, rotten and foul
Squats the conscience of nations,
Three children's bones dance around the pole
Broken from a young mother's body.
A sheep bleats the rhythm bah bah.

— By Ernst Toller (1893-1939)
Translated from the German by Peter Appelbaum

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