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Günter Eich - Betrachtet die Fingerspitzen
Zwischen Appell und Ausgeliefertsein formuliert Eich sein Nicht-Einverstandensein. Aus der Trägheit des Alltags gerissen, warnt das Ich davor, die Pest erst zu erkennen, wenn sie bereits im Körper wütet und die Fingerspitzen schwarz färbt.
Günter Eich - Look at the fingertips
In his poems Eichs disagrees with almost everything. Disagreement is the state of his writing. The poem alternates between helplessness and warning. When you see the pest turning your fingertips black, its too late.
Performed in 2021 in times of rising blindness everywhere.
My translation has no attempt of transferring the lyrical German into lyrical and grammatical correct English. I only want the listener to be able to follow the german words in my performance.
Look at the fingertips
are they changing their colour?
One day the exterminated pest will come back
The mailman puts it as a letter in the rattling mailbox
as a portion of herrings it lies on your plate
the mother's breast is feeding it to the baby
What are we going to do
when nobody is alive anymore
who knew how to deal with it?
The ones who are good friend with the terrible
can wait patiently for it to come.
Again and again we are waiting for our luck
but it does not like to sit on our chairs.
Look at the fingertips!
When they are changing their colour
its too late
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