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The Mask Of Evil
On my wall hangs a Japanese carving, / The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer. / Sympathetically I observe
The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th June / The Secretary of the Writers Union / Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
To Be Read In The Morning And At Night
My love / Has told me / That he needs me.
To Posterity
1. / Indeed I live in the dark ages! / A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens
To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty
So there you sit. And how much blood was shed / That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you? / Well, don't forget that others sat before you
To Those Born After
I / To the cities I came in a time of disorder / That was ruled by hunger.
United Front Song
And because a man is human / He'll want to eat, and thanks a lot / But talk can't take the place of meat
What Has Happened?
The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced. / The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago about tithes. / The generals are putting on civvies and looking like bank clerks.
“When I’d reported to the couple, thus”
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