The Legend of the Sandwich

Gavrilo Princip wanted to kill the Arch-duke Franz Ferninand To integrate Bosnian-born Serbians into the Greater Serbia So with bombs and pistols supplied by the Serbian military With another seven conspirators who positioned themselves Along the route in Sarajevo streets to their throw bombs Nedeljko Cabrinovic was the first to act and threw a grenade The fuse of this bomb was too long and it exploded under A following car full of Austrian officers who were injured Cabrinovic took expired cyanide that didn't work and then He jumped in a nearby river that was only four inches deep So his attempts to evade capture failed him in the end The bombing threw out the plans of the Arch-duke then And his plans for the day were abandoned and he decided To go to the Sarajevo Town Hall to meet city officials there The Arch-duke's driver was not a local and became confused Turning into a dead end street and having to reverse back up This is the part of the story that has been written into legend Princip was in Schiller's delicatessen eating a sandwich When he saw the Arch-duke's car outside on Franz Josef Street He couldn't believe this opportunity to kill the Arch-duke So you he dropped his sandwich and rushed outside Just in time to assassinate the Arch-duke and his wife He was caught and later died in custody during the Great War The legend of the sandwich may or may not be true But the coincidences that set the scene for the Great War May have swung on a delicatessen sandwich for lunch. © Paul Warren Poetry