Marie
adorned with a garland of white roses
in her favorite sun dress
and black pleather combat boots
sang a capella
to the some twenty-odd art students
gathered in the abandoned music hall
She stroked the petals of a sunflower that Kai
had planted in the broken floorboards
just left of center stage
and touched off its capitulum
with her fingers pointed like a revolver
“…Aujourd'hui... ça commence avec toi!”
the manic vision
a whorl of pastel colors
shot from its head to my conarium
and all of the living sprites
to have appeared as sparks
in narrow shafts of light
wavering in and out of existence
to the quivering echo of her voice
the meteor shower
and Second World War rocket fire
over the caved-in ceiling
feeling my hands along the old wooden floor
holding the debris
This stone
this earth
her jumping rope as the sole female youth
in The Triumph of the Will
to have sewn the insignia
of the Iron Front
on her civilian uniform
Otomo Yoshihide’s cover of “Strawberry Fields Forever”
blaring through still operative public address system
a candlelit vigil for a former Russian aristocrat
floating on his ascent to paradise
“Are you alright?”
the ocean and the daylight
there at the dawn of life on Earth
“…ou la mort, Kaiser.”
I said, shaking the water out of my eyes
“Just call me Kai.”
he smiled, lifting my head off of the floor and helping me to stand
Marie and I were never lovers
though she would cry upon my shoulder after you went underground
and confide that
“…it was just for the infinite moments in my life…
I never really believed in revolution;
I just wanted to feel alive.”
She attempted suicide after you were implicated in the assassination of Hans Färber
and has since refused to let my visit her
though smiled as I left
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