alpha males
alpha females
hate trades
demonstrations of strength
survival
hiroshimas
congos
kkks
nazikisses
prison beatings
blind rages
rape
hatespeech
gold stars

and then perfume and piano to help forget it all . . . and the air heavy with death fifty-four years later
crematoria still stinking
and everyone drinking
five euro starbucks like nothing ever happened
and the bees
hot after the sticky buns

and architecture as stiff and cruel as an IBM death ticker
computation
clearly thirty seven was not too soon to die
ranier
ah too late
or love colder than death

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