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LEGEND LEGEND HAS IT HAS IT (HILDAFIT FOR<br />

(HILDAFIT TOASTED FOR HITLERS) TOASTED HITLERS)<br />

a phial of less well burnt bone<br />

fragments and blood-dimmed carpet<br />

fibres taken from the torn bodies<br />

charcoaled in the cratered garden<br />

of the chancellery eventually<br />

fell to the hands of a young<br />

undergraduate in chemistry<br />

at somerville college oxford<br />

researching bactericidal<br />

gramicidin (an early topical<br />

required in rendering offal<br />

and bone meal safe from that<br />

epizootic new variant<br />

Creutzfeldt-Jakob—once ingested<br />

formed the foul catalyst by<br />

which is now afforded what<br />

history so valiantly denied<br />

a full state funeral the full<br />

global artilleried glory<br />

of these gun carriage<br />

military honours for<br />

the führer dead and his new bride<br />

antibiotic culture<br />

allowing inorganic<br />

malevolent monovalent<br />

cations unrestricted travel<br />

through cellular membranes)<br />

which very suspension—contra all<br />

medical wisdom of the time re<br />

gramicidin (external use<br />

only) and of much later re<br />

the high temperature levels<br />

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