Herr Bertolt Brecht maintains man equals...

Herr Bertolt Brecht maintains man equals man -

A view that has been around since time began. 

But then Herr Brecht points out how far one can

Manoeuvre and manipulate that man. 

Tonight you are going to see a man reassembled like a car

Leaving all his individual components just as they are. 

He has some kind friends by whom he is pressed

Entirely in his own interest

To conform with this world and its twists and turns

And give up pursuing his own fishy concerns. 

So whatever the purpose of his various transformations

He always lives up to his friends' expectations. 

Indeed if we people were to let him out of our sight

They could easily make a butcher of him overnight. 

Herr Bertolt Brecht hopes you'll feel the ground on which you stand

Slither between your toes like shifting sand

So that the case of Galy Gay the porter makes you aware

Life on this earth is a hazardous affair.

Brecht, Bertolt, Man Equals Man, 1926, Interlude, pp. 38.