Dead Typewriter

Gabriel A. Levicky A DEAD TYPEWRITER OR 1000 + 1 JUDEN VERLASSEN* Here I go again! The not-so blind date With history Narrowed my and-I-thought-they-have-seen-everything eyes. All I can touch Is A paper, a report Blown in from the past. Everything else becomes a crippling echo. Paris 9.4.1942 To Berlin. Attention: Eichmann. Time: 8:55 am, transport # D901/23 From Le Bourget-Drancy to Auschwitz With 1000 Jews Has been just dispatched.* Each Jew received 2-week provisions. Please confirm. Neatly typed Pica letters report. On a polished typewriter, A victim of war, Now long dead. The earth is not round yet And It is not turning. Only the past is rotating, whirling In the autumn park carousel. Now you feel it. Now you don’t. NYC, October’ 01 *Based on the found written report dated 9/4/1942, sent at 10:30 AM by an anonymous Nazi officer stationed in Paris to Eichmann in Berlin