Julia Doyle arrived at Spinoza HS <br />with visions of creating a real Community <br />and to that end she announced <br />all submissions from the faculty <br />would be published in the school’s <br />literary magazine. <br />One day in the Teacher’s Center <br />Minna Cohen asked Julia, <br />“When’s the magazine coming out? ” <br />“Soon...but I didn’t understand a word.” <br />I immediately said, “Julia, you promised us <br />we’d get published.” <br />“I thought Minna would do a love story.” <br />“Not much love the last decade, ” she said <br />“Imagination, Minna. You’ve got that… <br />at least I hope so… <br />no writer can function without it.” <br />Minna muttered, “You said I’d make it <br />no matter what, just no dirty words <br />that’s what you said. <br />I need this… <br />just stick it in… <br />anyplace.” <br />Julia stared at Minna saying, “You’re in.” <br />”Thank God.” <br />“But Auschwitz? for a student magazine? <br />and so confusing, the entire story <br />a six page monologue of mixed up words.” <br />“I can see that because the narrative’s <br />part of a larger work I’ve been writing <br />for the last eleven years <br />about the life of Hannah Greenberg, <br />a doctor and survivor of Auschwitz <br />who went mad thirty years <br />after her incarceration. The Death Camp <br />deposited a time bomb in her soul.” <br />“But, Minna, you only gave the insanity.” <br />“How about my story? ” I asked blurted out. <br />“A fat man’s saga into stroke.” <br />“Yes.” <br />“I expected humor, after all <br />you’re a funny guy.” <br />“Not all fat men are funny, ” I said, <br />more bitterly than I intended. <br />“Yes, I’m sorry, but the entire tale <br />is uniformly dismal, yet I felt no sadness… <br />sorry, Bernstein, but… <br />why didn’t he just stop eating? ” <br />“Insanity, ” said Minna, her voice <br />so soft, so calm, but with such certainty, <br />“still here <br />now <br />the whole world.”<br /><br />Charles Chaim Wax<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/two-unpublished-authors-await-publication/
