napola (3)

registers every shade

on the spectrum

dis-

arranged from

disquiet

through disaffection

disenchantment

disillusion

into the dark

stops at every station

on the route to self-

destruction

     dissent

     disdain

     disgust

till he

     draws

     into

     the terminus

 

dares to desist

     decry

     defy

resolves to resist

 

so deliberate

that downward glance

signals such decision

 

sinks softly

slips swiftly

             into

             the deep

distressed

distraught

disconsolate

             to the

             ultimate disengagement

 

and the ultimate release

For another Tom Schilling poem see here. If you haven’t seen Napola/Before the Fall, check out this superb, moving YouTube tribute.

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generation war (1)

no one can

 

smoke

 

quite

 

as

 

disaffectedly

 

as tom schilling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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herz im kopf (1)

how to stop looking

at the

sheer

satin

luminous

perfection

of tom schilling’s skin

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napola (2)

 

resentment

contempt

reproach

and despair

smelted, volcanic

in tom’s

molten stare

For another Tom Schilling poem see here. If you haven’t seen Napola/Before the Fall, check out this superb, moving YouTube tribute.

For more on Tom Schilling, see secretsquirrelreviews.

napola (1)

the sort of presence

where the camera doesn’t need to

pull focus

your mind and eyes

do it automatically

every time he comes

on screen

For another Tom Schilling poem see napola (2). If you haven’t seen Napola/Before the Fall, check out this superb, moving YouTube tribute.

For more on Tom Schilling, see secretsquirrelreviews.