Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Thursday 6 October 2022

Christian Morgenstern

said that sheople
don't so much speakle
as quotle and repeatle.

Here is my version of his poem
The Birth of Philosophy :

Sheep glares at me with shock and awe
as though I were the first biped it saw.
Mesmerising glare!  We stand like we're asleep.
It seems the first time that I have seen a sheep.

Morgenstern's Gallows Songs (1905) are well-known amongst German speakers, and influenced Bertolt Brecht as well as Otto Dix.

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