There is proof that Hess is no longer Hess

There is proof that Hess is no longer Hess

Water refracting light

Sea shimmering

River flowing in chords of reptile strength

Hissing with foam

Exclaiming with spray

Opaque with silt

and

Cold as ashes-

You can flow away

Or dissolve

And let's face it

You do.

They just dug up Hitler's pal

Rudolph Hess's bones,

Cremated them-

And scattered the ashes at sea.

See

What I mean?

They could be Hindus or Romans

But the German authorities just didn't want a Neo-Nazi shrine

One Third Reich is enough for the psyche

But it's hard to convince the young

Angry with too many Turks-

But any Hindu could have told the German born again Hitler Youth

Even their own departed

Herman Hesse or Max Mueller

Shrines are in your heart-

Not in 93 year old suicidal bones

Or in Hess's tomb.

But when it comes to dead flesh

The Aryan idea is to purify the matter with fire

And Germans, ignoring some of their wilder tribal origins

Like to be seen as Aryans

Blue of eye

Blond of hair

And what a lot of ethnic cleansing this caused.

So

Even though they don't push their theories

Of the Master Race anymore

Its amusing to think that we Indians

Think we're Aryans too.

And Aryans love their fire

Fire for Havans

Fire to witness marriage

Fire to be consumed in at death.

Christians probably got the burial idea from the Muslims

And Jews

All religions of the book-

And born as neighbours.

And determined to not do as the Romans and Greeks did

With their pagan funeral pyres.

But the proof is in the eternal life of the spirit

That everyone seems to agree on

Even Rudolf Hess's spirit.

So

Burn or bury as you might.

But the story remains

Of a man imprisoned after the War

For decades in a

Allied prison

Where he was the only inmate

Till he killed himself at

93

And here are

Neo-Nazis wanting to invoke

His spirit by

Gathering at his tomb.

Let's think of

Boats-

Frail vagina shaped craft

Gentle crucibles

For beginnings and ends

And messages to the afterlife.

Let's realise-

That Hess is no longer Hess

Anymore than Mueller is Mueller

Or the gentle Hesse is Hesse.

22nd July 2011

Gautam Mukherjee

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