The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein

Alfred Lichtenstein (1889-1914) was a popular German author. This work is a collection of his best known Prose works. "A man walked back and forth in his torn slippers In the small room He inhabited. He thought about the events About which he was informed by the evening paper. And sadly yawned, the way only that man yawns Who has read much that is strange- And the thought suddenly overcame him, Like a timid person who gets gooseflesh, And the way the person who stuffs himself Starts to burp, Lik