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Friday, October 15, 2021

Brecht ‘To Those Who Follow in Our Wake’

 

 





Brecht ‘To Those Who Follow in Our Wake’

"Truly, I live in dark times!
An artless word is foolish. A smooth forehead
Points to insensitivity. He who laughs
Has not yet received
The terrible news.

What times are these, in which
A conversation about trees is almost a crime"

— Bertolt Brecht


Brecht talked in the dark time of the Nazi regime in Germany about migration and the dawn of a big war and the Holocaust.



Complete poem: 
https://harpers.org/2008/01/brecht-to-those-who-follow-in-our-wake/






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