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Tag: German poetry

An Early Morning in Daylight-Saving Summer

March 2012

In a razor sharp buzzing they come to haul me / from my bat-infested nightmare-time—

Every Day

July 2011

War is no longer declared, / it is continued.

The Lucky One

By Robert Walser, translated from the German by Daniele Pantano
August 2010

…there / was always a lucky one, who carried with him / the mistakes of others, what a burden / it must have been that pushed him down, / but he was pleased by all this pushing.

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