Saving the best sonnets for last, I see.
Well, this is undeniably a marvelous sonnet, and there's little I can say that isn't baseless compliment. I'm a little put off by "plastique" in L6. Partially because it should probably be italicized, and partially because while it may be the most technically correct word (I'm honestly not sure), it also seems somehow too innocuous. Maybe that's the point. But it's the only word I pause over when I read the poem. The only other terribly minor nit I have is with the comma after "and" in L13. I don't think it's necessary, even though the rules of grammar might technically stipulate otherwise.
Excellent work, and despite some early misgivings about this bakeoff, I now see that it's going to be quite the trial to pick a top three.
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