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I am an anti-fascist… anti-Faust
Ich liebe life and I admire chaos
Ich bin to wish, Genosse Offizieren,
Dem Zeit zum Faust for a while spazieren.
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Without embracing Polish propaganda,
In Krakow he had missed his Vaterland, and
He dreamt of the philosopher’s true diamond
And sometimes doubted his own talent.
He gently picked, off ground, ladies’ tissues,
He got excited with the gender issues,
Along, in school he played the polo’s virtues.
He studied deeply gambling catechismus,
And learned to taste the sweetness of Cartesian.
Then crawled deep down into the Artesian
well of ego-centrism. The military slyness
For which was famous Mr. Clausewitz,
For him remained apparently unknown,
Whereas to Vater was a wood artisan.
Zum beispiel, in outbreak of glaucoma,
The plague, cholera und Tuberculosen,
He saved himself by schwarze Papierossen.
Attracted by the Gypsies and the Moors.
He then became a bachelor alumnus.
Was granted then a licentiate laurus
And sang to students,
(Joseph Brodsky)
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