“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”

—  Bertolt Brecht

"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

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