“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war.
This is a spiritual war.”
……………… —US Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum
Die Brücke
They must have turned a few stolid German
heads in the years before the war, out to
overturn the dinner table,
bellow in the library and race around
the altar, kids playing savage, their
idea of it anyway, the id
unbridled, hands turned to thrash and
burn with primal tools, gouged wood
releasing unseen spirits, tossing them
off like two minute garage hits pressed onto
paper, burning the inked blocks to heat
their cold Dresden studio leaving
only to take in the tingle-tangle
and meet girls, that timeless rationale
of tortured artists everywhere, a
blitzkrieg bookended by the
Manifesto and Chronik der Brücke,
a short jagged run worn smooth
scoured by war, gouged away by a new
breed of savage in crisp brown shirts, ranks
in lockstep, preaching purity, wielding fire.
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by Dave Hardin
publisher: Scrum