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From: Poetry
Date: 19981001
Author:Muller, Heiner
In the hard-currency-bar of the Hotel METROPOL
Berlin Capital of the GDR a Polish whore
A foreign worker is hitting
Up a very old man with a cold
Between the chapters of his lecture
About freedom in the U.S.A.
He snorts into a snot-rag and yells for the trash can
Still feeling pity for her difficult profession
I hear two travelling salesmen
Bavarian from the sound of it
Dividing up Asia: WELL I WOULD LIKE MALAYSIA
THAILAND KOREA TOO IS PART OF IT
WELL I WOULD ALSO PLAN THE CROSS-TRACK SYSTEM
FOR YEMEN THEN
THAT WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT
CHINA IS PART OF IT TOO
CHINA IS THE ONLY ...
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