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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 5, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1423; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl243
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association

Diversion

Vending machine

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

he puts four dimes into the slot

he gets himself some cigarettes

he gets cancer

he gets apartheid

he gets the king of greece

federal state tax sales tax and excise

he gets machine guns and surplus value

free enterprise and positivism

he gets a big lift big business big girls

the big stick the great society the big bang

the big puke

king size extra size super size

he gets more and more

for his four dimes

but for a moment all the things he is getting himself

disappear

even the cigarettes

he looks at the vending machine

but he doesn't see it

he sees himself for a fleeting moment

and he almost looks like a man

then very soon he is gone again

with a little click

there are his cigarettes

he has disappeared

he is gone

buried under all the stuff he has gotten

for his four dimes

From Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Selected Poems, trans., Michael Hamburger (Bloodaxe Books, 1994). Reprinted with permission


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