Considering Martha (1974), Maria Braun (1979), Lili Marleen (1981), Veronika, Lola, Petra and all.


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she posts secrets to an address in another hemisphere                fräulein

pins secrets all over her lumberjack shirt

she covers her nakedness with secrets

stuffs secrets into holes her mother made in her bedroom door          with a stiletto heel

                      in a quest to beat her       for her lies and lipstick            liebe

she longs for her first love, sometimes her third

she injects weed killer and brake fluid into them

she drives into the river and drowns the children             kinder

she serves poisoned meatballs to him and him

she loves men           jungen               yum

she’s filled her lover’s car with water using the garden hose

                  smiled and beaten a dog                        ein kleiner hund

she’s murdered her best friend and stuffed her in the wardrobe        
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I don’t know what it is

I have thrown a kitten against a wall and watched it dribble and limp         I have

trapped a cat and wear its head as a hat              its tail streams down my back

I have stopped eating                                                I can’t stop eating

I stand alone on my bridge of sighs                      meaows

I want them ALL to die                                                                    I lie and lie and lie