Aufklarungkrieg, enlightenment's discharge
into the folds of wickedness, seeks plush-
lipped puppet-scapegoat for possible climax; packs
a payload of some magnitude, as witness
these curtly lopped and cauterised daisy-heads.
Obliterated, yes. Verklarte? Nicht.
Illumination please. Our leader's brain -
has it known lightening-flashes, not unlike
those routed through condemned half-imbeciles
in Alabama, say? Flesh scorched to earth
will rise again from clay to model justice
perhaps, but not in this life. In our time
officious maggots oozing rationales
for torture feed among the city's dead.
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