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Highlights of the Führerbunker


The ventilation drone was comforting,

and Eva Braun’s tan was comforting,

and there was comfort in Goya’s Napoleon:

the great man too small for his chair,

swinging his legs like a schoolboy,

bank clerk’s haircut, pouting a touch,

distracted by a poisonous centipede

(out of frame) rearing up on the window ledge,

its mandibles, its loom of legs,

green and convincing with its domino-walk,

wilful mechanism, military clackers,

getting half-way up the studio wall,

before meeting Goya’s clog.