On 12 July of 2003
following radio message went around the earth:
that a bomb squadron of the air police
will exterminate all of humanity.
The world government has been so declared, notice,
be that the plan to finally make peace,
be realized not help
as all parties to poison. To flee
was told was no use.
Not a soul could live.
The new poison gas crept into every hiding place.
You do not even need to eviscerate himself.
On 13 July flew from Boston one thousand
away with gas and bacteria-laden aircraft
and accomplished, all around the world rushing,
ordered the murder of the world government.
The people whining crawled under the beds.
They rushed into their basement and into the woods.
The poison yellow hung like clouds over the cities.
million bodies lay on the asphalt.
Everyone thought he could escape death.
None escaped death, and the world was empty.
The poison was everywhere. It slipped as on toes.
It ran along the deserts. And it swam across the sea.
People were bundled like rotten sheaves.
Andre hung out the window like dolls.
The animals in the zoo screamed terribly before they died.
And slowly cleared from the large blast furnaces.
boat swayed in the sea, laden with the dead.
And neither cry nor laugh was left in the world.
wandered the planes, with a thousand dead pilots
of the air and fell burning into the field.
had now reached the man at last what she wanted.
Although the method was not very human.
The earth was still, and finally satisfied, and rolled,
completely reassured, her well-known elliptical orbit.
Erich Kaestner
A man informs (1930)
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Image: CC License, Version 2.0 - Copyright Ute Kreus, Time Travel
Music: Gotterdammerung Ring, Act I, Wagner
poem From the book Kästner for Erwachsene1, licensed edition of the German Book Federal - 03 772 / 1
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