If you believe his story
he wooed and loved
a Belarusian
dental student
when she was 20
when he was 56
after his release
from prison
summer
2009
she arrived
in New York
lacking a degree
attending a dental school
he had funded
to provide access
to knockout drugs
to the import
of human teeth with potential
for forensic
misdirection
if planted near
skeletal remains.

If you believe
this girlfriend
who worked in his office
who used his address
who is in the files
some 40,000 times
and his last will
the recipient of
the bulk of his estate
then you know how
he transferred
his operations
to the person
so designated
to receive them
the last person
to speak to him
by phone

and the next day
he was dead.