Mondorf Interrogation Center, Luxemburg . May 1945
There is power in his eyes
he is not afraid
“god bless our weapons” - Goebbels
Goering - “a soft sybarite
wearing rouge and dropping 40 para-codeine tabs a day...
The first thing I noticed
was his painted fingernails”
“To their eternal shame
he was wined and dined by American air-force men”
Eisenhower told them to treat
Goering “as the gangster and criminal he was”
During the Nuremberg Trial a two hour film was shown
of death camps
Goering protested, saying the footage had ruined
a perfectly pleasant day.
The true unpleasantness of war
is all the fucking dead people
staining the steel and glory
with rivulets
of tainted blood.
