Spät nachts

is another poem by the German-language poet Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975). The title means Late at night, and the poem describes what she hears and sees and thinks on her way home (or alone at home?), in the deep of the night. Some lines of the last verse:

Es ist so still, als könnte nichts geschehen.
Jetzt schweigt des Tages Lied vom Kampf ums Brot.
– Nur irgendwo geht einer in den Tod.
Und morgen wird es in der Zeitung stehen …

In English (sorry for the artless AI translation):

It is so quiet, as if nothing could happen.
Now the song of the day about the struggle for bread is silent.
Only somewhere, someone is dying.
And tomorrow it will be in the newspaper...

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