Initially I was trying to write a response to this cheerful short film:
http://www.archive.org/details/Mommartz_Die_Angst_am_Rhein_1974



On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, phanero wrote:

No, Teach them NATIONALISM!! Thatt's what we do, here in AMERIKA!
and it works fine thank you very much.. damn fererners..


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From: "J. Lehmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:32 AM
Subject: Marchsongs


VI
Literacy.
  When the customary routes
  have been blocked, one turns
            to writing
  as an effort of escapism

  She wants to know if it's
    one of those numerical puzzles
           what the adults do
           entertainment, routines,
                  the daily news --
  No, Debord, and the language's
    foreign. A muddled translation
    dating from a different era
    And it all has been superseded
             the interest must be for
             historical reasons only
                    I want to explain

But you don't teach nihilism
  to a child of six
       when the gift of reading
  is a magical one. Even single words

7.3.2006



VII
Working with marble
  poetically presented
I yield myself to the flow
  of the visual narrative
    suffer the  determined
    blows of the hammer
    and invite the chisel

But the textual references
  are harder to follow
    even when you think
    you're a poet
A surrender is called for
  but how is one to accomplish this
    when the signs fall back
            further and further
    in the wind of time
  And interpretation and
    commentary
             claim the place
               in gradual steps

7.3.2006




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