SURE IT’S NURTURE?*

I don’t think any rational creature,
Can resent contemporary Germans,
For what their parents,
And grandparents did.

But I think they fear contemporary Germans,
For what their parents,
And grandparents,
Showed themselves capable of.

No one is sure,
How much is nature,
And how much is nurture,
But if it’s at all nature,
This place is a scary mother-fucker!

*Written in Berlin, 2013