steam train is coming
at full spead, clickity clack
on time to nowhere
steam train before me
can the engineer see me
I wave my arms, stop!
steam train overhead
my screams masked by the rumble
I lie on tracks
steam train on its way
through the dark shadowed valley
running off the tracks
steam train far away
I tried so hard to stop it
But flesh can’t beat [...]
This is Susie Neunmalklug – also known as Susie Smartypants. In German, her name means “Nine Times Clever”. Susie is the character in a children’s book on Evolution by Michael Schmidt-Salomon and Helge Nyncke. See the link for more information.
Here, Susie gives us an explanation of her experience challenging her teacher Mr. Hemplemann’s explanation of [...]
I’ve given a fair amount of thought to death.
It isn’t something I talk to other people about very often, death, so I can’t say I really know very much about what other people think. It does seem to me that there is a lot of denial. Religion attempts to soothe our worried minds with a [...]
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