NEW! Poem by Günter Eich

Günter Eich

APPLICATION

Some knowledge
of damming wild creeks,
familiar with
health insurance measures
for apprentice weavers,
unafraid
of electric current,
also able to handle animals,
adept at business correspondence,
especially, praise God, Manchurian,
Tocharian and in
the stenography of filthy
eagle-owl calls, an
all-around talent,
appropriate
to a position of leadership
in the submarine business.


Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert