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Der Zapfhahn has several meanings in the German language:
The Spigot, The Nozzle, The Tap, The Faucet, The Hose.

Without its definite article, the noun “Zapfhahn” is also the name
of a local pub in a small historic German town with discernible
vestiges of the Roman Empire near Braunschweig.

My earliest experience in this rather colorful establishment dates 
back to 1990 during the period of the German reunification.

Zapfhahn is the place to go to imbibe alcohol of all variations,
and to have intellectual discussions (sometimes),
and to dodge errant beer bottles speeding through the air (occasionally),
and to sing songs (mostly in German) apropos to the crowd gathered.

Zapfhahn is the place to go to solve the problems of the world
or at least attempt to do this fruitless adventure.

Zapfhahn, with its medium and influence of alcohol, 
is the place to: 
adjust your attitude,
fall in love,
fall out of love,
get drunk,
find redemption (depending on your religion),
or just have a good time.

With fun had by all,
and with the night quite late,
I cannot wait to so indulge myself again.

And so, Zapfhahn with your mythic and alchemic 
connections to the spirits of the night,
I surrender my soul in due course
so that I might see it resurrected 
in its splendid glory.

I can only pray
and hope so.


Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved, Schoeningen, Germany
(August 29, 2014)

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