The autocrat remarks
‘vassal shine my shoes.’
Herr Keuner*, he responds
‘the cotton is full of wool.’
The autocrat holds forth
‘oh peon bake my bread.’
Herr Keuner bestows voice
to the mice behind walls.
At St. Peter’s Gate
the autocrat implores
‘oh vassal own my deeds.’
Herr Keuner with his shovel
replies with a heave
of dirt upon the devil’s grave
‘no sir I won’t’ says he.
*Character in some stories by Bertolt Brecht
Anne's mediocre poetry 