Bertolt Brecht: Hollywood

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Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group FEMEN clash with Swiss police during a protest at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012.

Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group Femen clash with Swiss police during a protest at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday 28 January 2012: photo by Jean-Christophe Bott/AP




Every day, to earn my daily bread
I go to the market where lies are bought
Hopefully
I take up my place among the sellers.




A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition.

A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday January 28 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition: photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP


Bertolt Brecht: Hollywood, 1942 (written to be set to music for voice and piano by Hanns Eisler), from Poems in Exile, 1944, reissued in Selected Poems, 1947; translated by Michael Hamburger in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, 1976

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