The CIA and the KGB exchange Christmas cards <br />A blade snaps in two during an autopsy <br />The bouquet Bluebeard gave his first date reblooms <br />Many protest the stoning of a guitar pick <br /> <br />Railroad trains drop off the bourgeois' pointy head <br />A martyr sticks a coffeecup out under a firehose <br />Moviestars make hyenas lick their spaceship <br />God's hand descends into a glove held steady by the police <br /> <br />At their reunion The New Faces recognize each other <br />A spoiled child sleeps inside a thermometer <br />A single misprint in a survival manual kills everyone <br />The peace night makes according to the world comes <br /> <br /> <br />Note: von Hoddis: author of 'the first Expressionist poem,' Weltende, published in 1910. His poem has been aped innumerable times (Auden's 'The Fall of Rome,' for example), hence the questionmark in my title.<br /><br />Bill Knott<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/weltende-variation/
