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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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