O Mensch! Gib acht (Übersetzung auf Englisch)

I would like to comment upon the first line of the poem as I have translated it: "Human being, listen!" I am aware that the language I have used is not idiomatic and is rather awkward. But I had trouble finding something better. In the translation of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Walter Kaufmann, which I read in my youth, the first line of the poem is rendered "O man, attend!" This would be excellent if "man" meant "mankind"---but in actual fact "Mensch" is singular, not plural. If Nietzsche intended to speak to a single man (as opposed to a woman) he would have written "O Mann, Gib Acht!" Neither "Mann" in German nor "man" in English is appropriate, for by using the word "Mensch" Nietzsche indicated that his reader could be a woman or even a child. One approach would, therefore, be to write "O man, woman, or child, listen!" That is actually an accurate translation but it deviates from the cadence of the original by adding too many words. Still another tactic would be to retain the German word "Mensch" because it is found in Yiddish also, and should be familiar to most Americans who have (for example) seen movies about New York City and its Jewish population. For this reason "mensch" could almost be considered an English word. Then for the first line we could write "Listen, mensch!" or, to follow Kaufmann's example, "O mensch, attend!" I will let you, the reader, decide which of these alternative translations is best---personally, I think I am not satisfied with anything I have tried.