[Peace-discuss] Bert Brecht on the Obama administration

[C. G. Estabrook]

Poets (including Bertolt Brecht) often get there first.


John W. wrote:
> This woudn't happen to be the German poet and playwright whom the rest 
> of us call Berthold Brecht, would it?  Since he died in 1956, is it 
> possible that he was speaking of something other than the Obama 
> administration?
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
> 
>        I sit by the roadside
>        The driver changes the wheel.
>        I do not like the place I have come from.
>        I do not like the place I am going to.
>        Why with impatience do I
>        Watch him changing the wheel?
> 
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