Ann Cotten
inglés
Papa, Kind, Kalter Krieg
When I learned how you put my little half-sister to bed
and how in good moments I converse with my lover, I realized:
Did you talk with me in my early years
in the dusk before sleeping time?
(serious conversations they were
between two earnest young men)
And then pretend you didn't know me
during the daytime?
Letting only a tiny glint in your eye
promise you did know – far away?
That I might draw another breath
of it tomorrow?
Alle geistigen Mittel Gegen den Kommunismus!
Diese geistigen Mittel!
Sind alle für ihn,
wenn man sie nicht Züchtigt!
Geistige Mittel, anstellen
um ein Autogramm!
Nicht, geistige Mittel, schielen
auf die Leute, die den Teppich legen!
Denken heißt schlaff sein und disjunkt.
Geistige Mittel! Guttenberg und die Zeitung befehlen:
Alle geistigen Mittel, auf zum Spott!
Ganz darf nicht, sonst weg! Luxus herrscht!
Stahl/ Glas/ Stahl/ Glas/ Stahl/ Glas/
Producción de Audio: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2012
Papa, Child, Cold War
When I learned how you put my little half-sister to bed
and how in good moments I converse with my lover, I realized:
Did you talk with me in my early years
in the dusk before sleeping time?
(serious conversations they were
between two earnest young men)
And then pretend you didn't know me
during the daytime?
Letting only a tiny glint in your eye
promise you did know – far away?
That I might draw another breath
of it tomorrow?
All means of the mind Mobilize Against Communism!
These minds!
Are all for it,
if one doesn't Chastize them!
Minds, queue up
for an autogram!
Dont, minds, glance over
at the people laying the carpet!
Thinking means to be limp and disjointed.
Minds! Guttenberg and the newspapers have given the order:
All minds sneer at the count of three!
Whole must not, or else gone! Luxury reigns!
Steel/ Glass/ Steel/ Glass/ Steel/ Glass/