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Discarded Poems, by Peter Magliocco
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The River Crossing

Peter Magliocco

         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.



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