Revolution Review
I look back. The press generals
grabbed the big fright a year ago.
The OHL dies suddenly.
Hurray, hurray! The phrase was in the dirt.
Gone are the plans and the thick theses
over the clumsy reputation club.
God forbid, it would have been too good
God forbid, it was not meant to be!
Soldiers in front! The emperor has renounced.
Now you wanted to see on your own.
That's ugly in life,
that at the eberts the noskes are the same.
No sooner has the country recovered from a plague
it falls gracefully into the next one.
God forbid, it would have been too good
God forbid, it was not meant to be!
We already thought: Now you have the officers!
We thought: Here is now serious.
We thought: you will not be embarrassed,
the fire burns once ... it is kindled.
We thought: Now comes the iron broom ...
But the German soaks his pants -
God forbid, it would have been too good
God forbid, it was not meant to be!
Does this country never have a savior?
The gray rain air blows wet and pale.
To say goodbye just the right weather:
Farewell, drive well, November ideal!
Because firstly you charge too high expenses,
and secondly you are still singing the watch on the Rhine.
Tatütata, it would have been too good
God forbid, it was not meant to be!
under the pseudonym Kaspar Hauser released in the Weltbühne on 6.11.1919