funny
how writers and teachers
reduced their writing and teachings
to a dandelion and a lone bird
sittin' silently on some twig on a leaveless tree
war stripped everything down
even teachers were stripped off their dogma
food was gone, churches in rubble
and soup was delivered to school-boys in large drums
school every second day during winter
free soup included
some boys were idiots like warring fathers
some girls still danced hitleresque
propaganda this way and that way
you didn't know which way
the class would turn