Go, Bid the Soldiers Shoot

While in a spell of sane commemoration
Let them commemorate the mad Franz Lipp,
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
In Communist Munich in 1919.

Lipp quoted Kant in a telegram to Lenin
And reported: “Liberal bourgeoisie completely
Disarmed as Prussian agents. The cowardly Hoffmann
In his flight took away the key to my W.C.”

What world is what it was and as we are?
As it is what we were and as we see
And, insofar as we can see, as far?
Lipp filled the secretaries' room with red carnations.

While in a spell of sane commemoration
Let them commemorate the mad Franz Lipp,
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
In Communist Munich in 1919.

Lipp quoted Kant in a telegram to Lenin
And reported: “Liberal bourgeoisie completely
Disarmed as Prussian agents. The cowardly Hoffmann
In his flight took away the key to my W.C.”

What world is what it was and as we are?
As it is what we were and as we see
And, insofar as we can see, as far?
Lipp filled the secretaries' room with red carnations.
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