What if we wrote about what didn't happen:
Germany and the war and the United States
choking on a piece of meat or looking pretty 
standing on the side with her sundress and
spaghetti straps.  What if Hitler's doctor
who I've always seen as A woman with
A white paper cloth over her face, held
his breath, placed a cloth over his face
like a hand and held it there.
The way I see it Hitler never leaves the hospital 
on April 20th.  he is stuck between births.
The doctors know something.
A death quite remarkable and people
call it a still death and they cry
because that's what people do.