654 | Fugue of death | Germain Droogenbroodt, Spain

Giacomo Manzù, Italia

Fugue of Death* (Coronavirus)

To Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro…

Death, we drink you,
we drink you with our eyes,
we drink you with our ears
we drink you day by day

Dead, no time is left to say goodbye,
no time to dig your graves,
the leaders paved the road
with hypocrisy and dazzling lies.

Death, we drink you,
we drink you with our eyes,
we drink you with our ears
we drink you day by day.

Germain Droogenbroodt

Altea, Spain, 28.3.2020

*Todesfuge (Fugue of death), famous poem by Paul Celan
about the extermination of Jews by the Nazis