Like those astigmatic pupils,
Forster und his Frau,
he has read Nietzsche
obliquely, too early,
he has read Nietzsche
as his biography
and like Raskolnikov, miscasts
his smeared might
as the clear light
of a new dawn.
In the chthonic grey
of his iris
atrocities
pardon each other
over and over.
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