Untitled ("Later it came in a room all of us would like")

A compressed closing gesture that brings the book's title logic back into contact with Christ, force, and judgment.

One of the shortest works in the book, it gathers the collection's recurring names - Hitler, Christ, the River Snake - into a single compressed scene: 'Later it came in a room all of us would like / You stand up with a Centar along the River Snake / Hitler has no door in this measurement'. The poem moves from this strange geometry into a clipped creed - 'We think best / While there is Christ' - and ends on the paradoxical 'Agrived ahead as last', grieved or aggrieved while also arriving ahead at the end.

The governing line is 'Hitler has no door in this measurement', which proposes a system of reckoning so dimensioned that absolute evil simply has no entrance into it - a quiet, almost mathematical exorcism. Against that, 'Guts are not wanting to waste time about yourself' sets a stoic refusal of introspection, and 'Take to task / Not a question asked' tightens into near-aphorism. The rhyme of 'Christ' with 'last' frames the whole as a tiny eschatology: judgment, the river, the centaur on its bank. Because the work is so short and its closing 'Agrived ahead as last' resists single resolution, this reading stays partly provisional on that final line, holding both 'aggrieved' and 'arrived' as live readings. The spellings 'Centar' and 'Agrived' are preserved from the source.