GARBO

GARBO

the devil
might lie
in the detail

but this lie
fooled the Abwehr
might have fooled God
(more than
mere mortals here
needing their wits about them)

as to the entire nature
of his fabricated Britain

as to
   the stone dead certainty
of Pas de Calais

and him inventing inventing
no limit to this overstretched
outsized imagination

this little chicken farmer
dropping his little hook
overboard

silently smirking when
the poor much
abused
     Hitler Reich could
not be
stopped
   from swallowing it whole