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I'd like to recite a poem in honor of you and your sponsor the Goethe Institute, it is very comedic:

Teaching German Literature by Vincent Buckley

I teach German Literature, and this is how it goes:
Schiller, Böll and Hölderlin, and everybody knows
that Bertolt turned on Thomas Mann and punched him in the nose,
and Goethe married Clara Kronk and Clara married Wagner.

Hardy is a proximist and Philip Larkin hates
walking past the neighbour's children hanging on the gates.
Keats was orphaned, Donne was bent, and Shelley went for drowning,
and Wordsworth maried Sara Dronik and Sara married Browning.

T.S. Elliot, marvellous boy, gre up with a mitre;
even in dark Russell Square you wouldn't find much brighter,
Furster Rilke knew a duchess, Trudi von Bachbeiter,
and Mara married Pablo Yeats and Pablo never married.

The greats of German literature are in the dressing room,
Lotte Lenya, Suky Tawdry, fending off life's gloom,
Hans Otto Eller Manzenberger smiling at his poem,
and Clara married Leslie Listz and Leslie married Magna.

And Goethe married Clara Kronk and Clara married Wagner.

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A great project you have there Florian. I would even like to reciprocate sometime. Tie in Indie bands and make it like this -

Wha'ya think?

Flo-
Louisville Kentucky