Further Reasons Why Poets Do Not Tell the Truth by Hans Magnus Enzensberger with an Author's Autograph! (The Sinking of the Titanic, 1978)

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Because the moment
in which the word happy
is pronounced,
Never is the happy moment.
Because, he who despairs
do not want to say:
"I am desperate."


Because orgasm and orgasm
are not compatible.
Because the dying, instead to assert:
"I am dying now,"
only lets a faint sound 
that we do not understand.
Because are the living 
who annoy the dead with their horror news.
Because the thirsty man
does not give mouth to his thirst.
Because proletariat is a word
which will not pass the lips of the proletariat.



Because words come always
to late or too soon
Because it is someone else,
always someone else,
who does the talking,
and because he 
who is being talked about,
keeps his silence.