11-22-2021, 11:20 PM
Assassination Menu, December 1916
Tea and cakes laced with cyanide
Madeira wine, also poisoned
an invitation to prayer
two bullets to the chest.
Resurrection and
one more bullet to the head.
A bath for the corpse in the icy waters
of the Malaya Nevka.
Contrary to rumor, genitals intact.
Buried, then dug up in 1917
and burned by the Bolsheviks,
ashes dumped, no one knows where.
Tea and cakes laced with cyanide
Madeira wine, also poisoned
an invitation to prayer
two bullets to the chest.
Resurrection and
one more bullet to the head.
A bath for the corpse in the icy waters
of the Malaya Nevka.
Contrary to rumor, genitals intact.
Buried, then dug up in 1917
and burned by the Bolsheviks,
ashes dumped, no one knows where.