DIE KRANKEN
peter longofono
“What is disagreeable and offends my modesty is that at bottom I am every name in history” —Nietzsche, trans. Kaufmann
From Prussia cancers
crow, wrought
cataracts in billows.
A plague, our windmill.
Son, nations scope
shut. Shoot the horses,
kindle the shutters. Out
and further out! Leave
me, dirging bootblack.
Go thrum, have done,
brook none but this:
King Frederick was just
a cape about a Yule-tree.
His country is no more.
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