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Jan 2019
. all you need to read is... wir kinder vom bahnhof ZOO, about the ***** epidemic in western Berlin, and then read this... just the cherry, the spice on top... 2 years in Auschwitz translates as around 50 years in either... relativism... my hands are in the air and with an imitation of a chicken of a chicken imitating a crow, asking... why would it be convenient to ask a question at this point, and inconvenient to ask a question after?

and how much of andante maestoso -
from Beethoven's IX:
in terms of the choir's allure
reaches up to Orff:
   and some vague allure of
                the romancing Teuton?
too much...
   while Strauss died:
unsatisfied in being boxed into
waltzes...
      never writing a serious symphony,
never mind an opera...
every January 2nd (or is it the 1st)?
the people clap, and Vienna
gives a concert celebrating Strauss...
mind you...
  what else is miserable about...
the holocaust?
  the German died...
Beethoven and the whole lot of them
burned into a thinning air
of a past...
but no one bemoans the death
of the deutscheseele...
the pompous airs of a well tailored
SS officer in the Inglorious
*******...
                       every agrees:
for all the horrors they perpetrated,
they were, the best dressed
army...
  Goebbel's
     makellos grau
          und schwarz kluft
...
i know of people who will
still sport (by god, jeans):
but! but... a prominent element
encompassing either grey...
or black...
even if i could, which i can't,
even if i would conflate:
which i also can't...
  the holocaust...
   i can't, i can't because:
   something German died in
the process...
   as the saying goes:
what kills the body, doesn't
**** the soul...
well...
      evidently
the Germans experienced
the opposite:
            their soul was slaughtered,
their bodies left intact:
just a case of numbers:
whereby more empty vessels
with a de-will...
   compared with
a concentration of Jews
             with wills like *****...
since even now:
   the holocaust this!
    the holocaust that!
that's one way of looking
at it...
   but also the tragedy of
                        what a German
once was...
    a portion of the Jewish
died...
   but also the collective
German spirit...
  die kollektivgeist:
which allows for
        a geschätzt-mensch.
Mateuš Conrad
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Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
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