Bertolt Brecht Head Poems

  • 1.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?
    What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces
    Of bread are more than one's about all you'll end up with.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn French?
    ...
  • 2.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?
    What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces
    Of bread are more than one's about all you'll end up with.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn French?
    ...
  • 3.
    The Augsburger walks with Dante through the hell of the departed. He addresses the inconsolable and reports to them that on earth some things have changed.

    When I'd reported to the couple, thus
    That up there no one murders now for gain
    ...
  • 4.
    AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED
    It is considered low to talk about food.
    The fact is: they have
    Already eaten.
    ...
  • 5.
    So there you sit. And how much blood was shed
    That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you?
    Well, don't forget that others sat before you
    who later sat on people. Keep your head!
    ...
  • 6.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?
    What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces
    Of bread are more than one's about all you'll end up with.
    My young son asks me: Must I learn French?
    ...
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