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-“Fine People”

von Herbert Kuhner am 20. Januar 2021 um 5:49
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics

 

During a Klu-Klux-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, August 11 to 12, 2017,
civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed
when a Klu-Kluxer rammed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators.

Donald Trump comments:
“You had people that were very fine people on both sides.”

Why be “soft” on the “very fine” people on the far right?
You don’t want to chase sure-fire voters away, do you, Don?

On January 6th of this year some “very fine people” stormed
and took over the nation’s Capitol.
At who’s behest?

 

Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood

 

 

Trump Defender Alan Dershowitz and the Unforgivable Sin

 

A.Dershowitz 2009

“Alan Dershowitz “(Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly the same generation.
We grew up during the period of McCarthyism, and my parents taught me,
as his parents may well have taught him, that the most unforgivable sin
is to „snitch“ on one’s friends and colleagues.”

Yeah, Alan, Keep it all under your hat!

 

 

 

– Herbert Kuhner

-DON and the POLICE

von Herbert Kuhner am 5. Januar 2021 um 18:26
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics

 

Washington — President Donald Trump appeared to advocate rougher treatment
of people in police custody during a speech in New York.
Politics Jul 28, 2017 4:16 PM EDT
WATCH: Trump trumpets MS-13 crack

“Trump spoke dismissively of arresting officers who protect suspects’ heads while putting
them in police cars in a speech in front of law enforcement on Long Island.
He said: “You can take the hand off,” drawing cheers from his audience.
Trump also claimed that laws are written to “protect the criminal” and “not the officers.
He told the law enforcement officials that the “laws are stacked against you ” and need to be changed.”

 

DUCK DON!

 

Donald Trump advocated rough treatment of suspects by police in New York
“You can take your hand off,” he said, referring to protecting a suspect’s head
while hustling him into a car.

When Trump is no longer president, he may be in for it.
If Trump becomes a “suspect,” should police follow his advice?

BETTER DUCK, DON!

 

– Herbert Kuhner

-Heine

von Herbert Kuhner am 30. Dezember 2020 um 14:12
Veröffentlicht in: Poetry, Polemics, Translation

Heinrich Heine – An Invalid Poem

 

Doch die Kastraten klagten,
Als ich meine Stimm erhob;
Sie klagten und sie sagten:
Ich sänge viel zu grob.
Und lieblich erhoben sie alle
Die kleinen Stimmelein,
Die Trillerchen, wie Kristalle,

Sie klangen so fein und rein.
Sie sangen von Liebessehnen,
Von Liebe und Liebeserguß;
Die
Damen schwammen in Tränen
Bei solchem Kunstgenuß.

 

The Castrati

 

The castrati complained
as I began to sing.
Go away, they said,
your voice is so vulgar.

Then in a chorus
they raised their voices
trilling as clearly as crystal
and sounding so pure.

They sang of passion,
of passion and love,
and the ladies wept
at the beauty of it.

 

* * *

 

A Marvelous Invalid Poem by Heine

 

The Castrati by Heine is a beautifully written invalid poem.
It is not the fault of the castrati that they sing as they do.
It is the fault of the Catholic Church that the sing so high.
Their voices are high due to the fact that they were castrated.

In order for this poem to be valid the songs sung high
should be due the singers singing high intentionally.
In other words, the singers should be singing
the way they sing voluntarily.

And the tragedy here is that they
have made the ladies weep,
but the weeping they cause
is all that they are capable
of bringing about.

 

Added by Herbert Kuhner

* * *

 

They sing so high
since they cannot sing low.
Others are to blame
for this specious trilling.

Tears should be shed
for singers who hit high notes
due to the intercession of those
who brought about their falsetto.

I weep not due to the singing,
but for the singers!

 

And here is a valid poem.

 

Zu fragmentarisch ist Welt und Leben

 

Zu fragmentarisch ist Welt und Leben –
Ich muß mich zum deutschen Professor begeben.
Der weiß dos Leben zusammenzusetzen
Und er macht ein verständlich System daraus;
Mit seinen Nachtmützen und Schlafrockfezen
Stopft er die Lücken des Weltenbaus.

 

 

Life and the World Are Too Fragmentary

 

Life and the world are too fragmentary.
I must consult the German professor.
He’ll know how to put everything in place
and make a system of it. And as for the gaps
in the cosmos, he’ll plug them up
with shreds of his nightcap and gown.

 

    * * *

 

Translated by Herbert Kuhner
Mnemosyne, Heft 20, 1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Dancing

von Herbert Kuhner am 11. Dezember 2020 um 14:00
Veröffentlicht in: Poetry

 * * *

“It is incomprehensible to me
how any Jew could ever return
to the killing grounds.
You chose to go to Hell
and then you complain
that the landscape is littered with devils.”

– Cynthia Ozick, writer, USA

Dancing

You can’t dance on graves.
There are no graves,
no gravestones for flowers
or stones. No graves to kneel
in front of or stand next to.

That cemetery is boundless.
The dead are all interred on high.

No, there’s no dancing on graves.
There’s only dancing under graves.
And there’s no lack of dancers.
There are dancers galore!

– Herbert Kuhner

 

 

-The Key

von Herbert Kuhner am 10. Dezember 2020 um 4:25
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Text, Translation

The Key

“It is incomprehensible to me how any Jew could ever return to the killing grounds. You chose to go to Hell and then you complain that the landscape is littered with devils.”
– Cynthia Ozick, writer

Before returning to Austria, I could not fathom the barbarity of the recent past Now I no longer ask questions.The Revisionists, those who paint the brown past in rose-colored tones, are master key-makers. However, my key came from their alleged foes, those designated themselves as intermediaries for the ones who managed to avoid what the Third Reich had in store for them..

Exploitation is the name of the game.

-Herbert Kuhner

(Examples will be presented)

 

Author Cynthia Ozick in her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. in 2008.

 

Der Schlüssel

Es ist mir völlig unverständlich, wie ein Jude zu den Tötungsgebieten zurückkehren konnte. Sie haben sich für die Hölle entschlossen, und dann wundern Sie sich, daß die Landschaft voller Teufel ist.
– Cynthia Ozick, Schriftstellerin, U.S.A.

Als ich nach Österreich zurückkam, konnte ich die menschliche Grausamkeit der Vergangenheit nicht fassen. Jetzt stelle ich mir keine Fragen mehr.

Die Ärgsten unter ihnen sind die Vermittler und Sprecher für Emigranten und Remigranten. Sie sind nichts anders als Ausbeuter des Holocausts, die sorglos über Leichen gehen. Ihre wahren Ziele sind es Macht und Geld zu sammeln. Der menschenverachtende Geist des Dritten Reiches ist geschickt in die Kunst geführt worden und wird in ihr deutlich ausgedrückt.

Die Beteiligten finden unter der Unantastbarkeit der Kunst Schutz. Die Gemeinheiten und Grausam-keiten von Förderern und Geförderten sind grenzenlos. Vergleiche mit der Mafia sind ungültig, da die „Beteiligten“ viel geschickter und raffinierter vorgehen.
Sie stellen reines, unverfälschtes Übel dar.

-Herbert Kuhner

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Herbert Kuhner ist Übersetzer von neun Sammlungen österreichischer Lyrik, darunter Austrian Poetry Today / Österreichische Lyrik heute. Schocken Books, New York; Carinthian Slovenian Poetry, Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio; Hawks and Nightingales: Current Burgenland Croatian Poetry, Braumüller Verlag, Wien / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio.

Contact

Prof. Herbert Kuhner
Writer/Poet/Translator
Gentzgasse 14/4/11
1180 Vienna
Austria
emails: herbert.kuhner@chello.at
T +43 (0)1 4792469
M +43 (0)699 11865704


see also:
wienerblut (third reich recycled)
www.harrykuhner.at (Harry´s Memoir)

A Review of
Harry Kuhners Jazz Poetry
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