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The Poison In The Air

David Thompson

The few who remained were surprised
when Hitler finally asked her, but
Eva Braun said yes, that she would
never leave him. She wore blue
at her midnight wedding, stood
arm-in-arm with him, now so stooped
and shaking, at the little reception
afterwards, eating sandwiches and
sipping the last of the champagne.
It was hard to hear him talking
of the old days in Munich over
the roar of the Russian shells coming
closer all the time and the drone
of the diesel ventilator keeping
them all alive so far underground.

Her marriage lasted only 36 hours
until they were slumped together
on a sofa; the almond-like smell
of the poison in the air, his pistol
on the floor. She had refused to use
the gun, bit instead on a capsule
of prussic acid, because, she said,
she wanted most of all to leave
a beautiful corpse, but they burned
her body and his with gasoline anyway,
in too much of a hurry to even notice
the lovely black dress with the soft roses
that she knew was his very favorite.

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