EPILOGUE to THE GOOD WOMAN OF CZECHWAN

You’re thinking, aren’t you, that this is no right
Conclusion to the play you’ve seen tonight?
After a tale, exotic, fabulous,
A nasty ending has slipped up on us.
We feel deflated too. We too are nettled
To see the curtain down and nothing settled.
How could a better ending be arranged?
Could one change people? Can the world be changed?
Would new gods do the trick? Will atheism?
Moral rearmament? Materialism?
It is for you to find a way, my friends,
To help good men arrive at happy ends.
You write the happy ending to the play!
There must, there must, there’s got to be a way!

-Bertold Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley

Berklee’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

In the plate appears the epilogue of the play "The Good Woman of Czechwan" written by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), a peace seeker who is known as one of the greatest opponents of the Nazi regime.
Among his well-known works were The Threepenny Opera, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage and Her Children and many more.

The connection between the section and Berkeley or California is not clear.