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herr weimar
by Matthew Conrad

arabs talking about fascism like it's some sort of variant
of a bar mitzvah...
just like the joker said to bru-bru-bruce wayne:
ale tantß mit ha-tayvln (zen dayn shotn?)
arayan ha bleykh levonelikht?
ever danced with the devil in
the pale moonlight?
catch me at the right time,
and the roofs come early autumn and mid-winter...
are dripping with a lustre of quicksilver polish

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herr weimar
by Matthew Conrad

arabs talking about fascism like it's some sort of variant
of a bar mitzvah...
just like the joker said to bru-bru-bruce wayne:
ale tantß mit ha-tayvln (zen dayn shotn?)
arayan ha bleykh levonelikht?
ever danced with the devil in
the pale moonlight?
catch me at the right time,
and the roofs come early autumn and mid-winter...
are dripping with a lustre of quicksilver polish

......

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