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Quotes & Sources The Fairfield Review, An On-line Literary Magazine for the Global Community.

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This may be the poem referenced by Robert Mazzocco in the New Yorker June 25, 2007, here: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/06/25/070625po_poem_mazzocco
Also see Ode to a High Dignitary

Things Change

I

And I was old, and I was young at moments
Was old at daybreak, young when darkness came
And was a child recalling disappointments
And an old man forgetting his own name.

II

Sad in my young days
Sad later on
When can I be happy?
Better be soon.


pp. 449-50, Last Poems, 1953-1956 chapter

Bertolt Brecht, Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, Theatre Arts Book; 1 edition (October 7, 1997)

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