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Once There Was...

...another Germany

1 min lectură·19 aprilie 2009

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Summer of \'67 at the Baltic Sea

sleeping in a big canvas tent

getting drunk all through a fortnight.

And the Freie Deutsche Jugend

all expected us to admire

the work of their fathers

at the drab fish-food plant outside Rostock

and a thoroughly organized social event.

The slick guy with the tie next to me

got a bit tired as hours passed by

without his detecting any interest whatsoever

for the future of the peace-loving peoples republic.

Later on; one sculpture park

outside Karl Marx-stadt

where Joe Stalins spirit

still was apparent

as gigantic columns

depicting steel-muscled workers

soared to the sky.

The wall?

- Never saw it, except on a

Floyd video many years later.

All through that beer-dazed trip

the tune I heard as the ferry

reached the German shore

stayed on my mind;

See Emily Play.

Joe Stalin and Syd Barrett never got acquainted.

043.821

John Willy Kopperud. “Once There Was....” Atelier, Poezie.ro, https://poezie.ro/atelier/john-willy-kopperud/poezie/1832685/once-there-was

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