04-12-2022, 12:08 AM
His last minutes
spent underground in a Viennese living room
killing the things he loved
a dog and a woman amid the acrid smell of almonds.
Then himself to the odor of gunfire,
finally a ditch in the shell pocked garden
acrid flames from SS petrol
sending up a holocaust to whatever angry gods
would find the smoke and ashÂ
of his Gotterdammerung sweet.
spent underground in a Viennese living room
killing the things he loved
a dog and a woman amid the acrid smell of almonds.
Then himself to the odor of gunfire,
finally a ditch in the shell pocked garden
acrid flames from SS petrol
sending up a holocaust to whatever angry gods
would find the smoke and ashÂ
of his Gotterdammerung sweet.