Questions from a Worker who Reads
By Bertolt Brecht
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Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?
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| Ahmed Elbetar |
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
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| Ted Mcdonnell |
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
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Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them?
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| Josh Hild |
Over whom did the Caesars triumph?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants?
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| Talha Güney |
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
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Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him?
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Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill?
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| Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz |
So many reports.
So many questions.
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| Fady Fouad |
Questions from a worker who reads
By Bertolt Brecht.
(First Picture by Ron Lach)
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