After the Massacre of Illusions
Guevara under the runway with his hands
Hacked off, he doesn’t “work i’ the earth” any more so now
The ideas are buried
Out come the bones
State funeral FOR FEAR OF RESURRECTION
O Sacred Head Sore Wounded Marketing
FOLLOW YOUR FINE PHRASES
TO THE POINT OF THEIR INCARNATION
Valery Chodemchuk, covered up
In the sarcophagus of the reactor, can wait
How long will the earth endure us
And what shall we call freedom
[1996]
Volker Braun’s note: ‘FOLLOW YOUR FINE PHRASES’ is said by Deputy Mercier to his fellow prisoners in Act III of Büchner’s
Dantons Tod. Danton replies: ‘Nowadays they do everything
in human flesh . . . They will use my body too.’
Dantons Tod. Danton replies: ‘Nowadays they do everything
in human flesh . . . They will use my body too.’
Translated by David Constantine
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