Dissolved

“Some party hack decreed that the people

had lost the government's confidence

and could only regain it with redoubled effort.

If that is the case, would it not be simpler,

If the government simply dissolved the people

And elected another?”

-Bertolt Brecht,

"The Solution" ["Die Lösung", c. 1953), as translated in “Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation” by George Tabori (1967)

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Variant translation:

“The Secretary of the Writers Union

Had flyers distributed in Stalin Way that said

That the People had frivolously

Thrown away the Government's Confidence

And that they could only regain it

Through Redoubled Work. But wouldn't it be

Simpler if the Government

Simply dissolved the People

And elected another?”