Bruno Hans Bürgel - Aus Fernen Welten, 1920.
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Small Shoes
If there are fewer stars now than when I was a child,
I can’t say which are missing, who was the last to see them.
Is it not a crime unless we call it a crime?
It is difficult to document a disappearance, a boat full of stars capsized. Stars lying in the sand
face-down, wearing small shoes. Add that to the report:
some of the stars washed up in small shoes.
—Maggie Smith

















