<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">We Are Alive. We Are for Everything</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">After Otto Piene</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">How does beginning go how does</div><div class="">remembering without forgetting go</div><div class="">in front of me in the snow a man</div><div class="">his back lonesome somber</div><div class="">how does beginning go not remembering</div><div class="">flashes of light that showed him images when he</div><div class="">was a boy quick and blinding see the shadows</div><div class="">in the light how does not-remembering go</div><div class="">listen to the hissing see the light</div><div class="">and Germany’s lightness</div><div class="">how bright Germany is like soot</div><div class="">like images quick and blinding how does</div><div class="">beginning go smell the snow</div><div class="">it’s new it fell in the night</div><div class="">in the dark gets forgotten</div><div class="">in images quick listen to the snow</div><div class="">it lies light like linen</div><div class="">something’s burning a hissing somber</div><div class="">like images at night on walls listen</div><div class="">to the hissing smell the smell of burning</div><div class="">look at the soot on a white background.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Daniela Danz </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translated from the German by Monica Cassel)</div></body></html>