The incendiary mental quotient
disappeared from Hitler’s brain
when the fatal bullet exploded
into his skull, ending his quest
for a national Aryan superiority
Inside the bunker his body
would be found
nearby his newlywed wife,
both inhabitants of a desecrated tomb
bullets & cyanide reigned over
Amid death’s unremitting smells.
To burn & bury their remains
became a Russian imperative
never completed until 1970,
when the KGB dumped dry Nazi ashes
into a German river’s watery embrace.
With no Wagnerian musical accompaniment
or stentorian sounds: only a quietude
resounds in grave undertakings
like the obliteration of evil
Again & again
from the defaced earth
men slowly murder,
thirsting for a justice
without beginning or end.