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This closing fragment moves through losing sperm, losing the felt connection to the mother, losing eyes, keeping the mind, and ending on `vituperatively`.

The opening is explicitly reproductive rather than martial. Its sequence moves from bodily loss and maternal feeling to blindness and mental survival; the last word keeps the voice accusatory and alive.

The book's closing fragment, built as a conditional ladder of loss: 'If I lose my sperm, I / can't feel the mother / any more,' then 'if I lose all my eyes, / I still keep my mind.' It ends on the single-word stanza 'vituperatively,' an abrasive last note that keeps the mind defiant and accusatory even after the loss of potency, mother, and sight - the sequence's final, bitter posture.