“I hold peace and war in my toga but I'l take a cherry flip
Today nobody knows whether he was tomorrow
They beat time with a coffin lid
If somebody had the nerve to rip the tail feathers
out of the trolley car it's a great age…”

—  Richard Huelsenbeck

End of the World, Ende der Welt', 1919

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German poet 1892–1974

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