Like a trick br you crawled up Hitler's sleeve, br a crooked cross with bent arms, br two cursed S's twisted together br like a black strand of DNA. br br You look like a mistake, br like two Y's joined at the hip, br the mutant offspring of an L- br a sad, disfigured letter from some br genetically-engineered alphabet br gone terribly wrong. br br I watch you wave from a flag br like a finish line br fluttering at the end of a race.