Who
is the greater German:
Grass
or Hermann Hesse?
Hermann
joined the pacifists
Grass
the Waffen SS
They
want to take his Nobel Prize
and
shove it up his arse
Politics
trumps literature
in
the case of Günter Grass
They
want to take his Nobel Prize
and
stuff it down his throat
You
fools - this misses the whole point
Honour
what he wrote
How
should dishonoured Germany
face
up to its guilt?
It
seems this was his motive
in
every word he spilt
Yes,
spilt - the blood of Germany
bleeds
through his every line
If
he was a fool at seventeen
These
books have paid his fine
And
what about the Peace prizes
To
Kissinger and Arafat?
I
say you should revoke those too
but
there’s no chance of that
This
outrage against Günter
resounds
like a hollow hum
drowned
out by majestic beating
from
an unrustable tin drum
"In Defence of Gunther Grass" is published in "Welcome To My World, Selected Poems 1973-2013", The Argaman Press. Click here to purchase the book.
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