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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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