Alice Creischer, Iza Tarasewicz: Battling with Malevolent Forces

The hat speaks, the rake speaks
the scythe murmurs
to the ear in the grass:

8.760 hours has the year.
1.200 hours consumes a job. 
40 years of work 
with 80 years life expectancy 
are 48.000 hours.
But life has 
700.800 hours
in Germany.
In Germany 
the share of working time 
of life is
only 7 percent.

To the ear in the grass speaks the hat
the rake speaks
it whispers the scythe to the eyelid:

Given the speed of light in fiber 
it is possible 
to send 
an order from New York to Chicago 
and back in 12 milliseconds.
It gives the occasion to be 
the first to exploit 
the discrepancies between 
prices in Chicago and prices in New York.
A millisecond is a thousandth of a second
A tenth of the time it takes you 
to blink your eyes, 
if you blink 
as fast as you can.

To the lid the scythe sizzles
Watch out, you,
Don't you think, you 
that you can hide it 
under the lid of skin 
the dream in sleep
and the eyes that run in it
around like birds do

before the host
who writes
exactly and precisely 
your share of work
in life 
on the door
with inerasable chalk

and do not think 
that you can wipe it out
with your batting eyelashes 
and let your eyes stand still
still in the middle
motionless
frozen 
from the fright to listen to me in the grass

And do not think
And don't you dare 
you!
To think that I am a cricket