Choose among the errors
given to you
but choose right.
Might it not be wrong
to do the right thing
at the wrong moment
or right
to do the wrong
at the right moment?
One false step
never to be made good.
The right error
should you miss it
may never come again.
Copyright © 1999/2002, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Lighter than Air: Moral Poems, translated by David Constantine (Bloodaxe Books)
Should the Occasion Arise
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
