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The
Scottish Café
by
Susanna H. Case
2002, 40 pages
Winner
of the 2002 Sapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition.
"Raisins"
Orlicz
is a regular at the Scottish Café
his apartment in Lvov is really small
and even his Orlicz spaces
do not leave him enough room at home
which
his wife has filled with dozens
of needlepoint pillows
so he creates function
spaces at the Café
full of his favorite—cheese paska
from which he picks
out the raisins
which irritate him
and uses them to assemble
the fourteen
problems he contributes
to the Scottish Book
his
teacher Steinhaus is not yet in trouble
not yet hiding from the Germans
who are not yet on their way to Stalingrad
his teacher Banach is not yet arrested
for trafficking in German currency
none of it true
the mathematics is
not yet diminishing
more than twenty-five mathematicians
in Poland not
yet dead
which
leaves Orlicz suspended
for a delicious moment in time and space
where
the yeast and egg
and farmer's cheese and sugar loaves
still taste exceptionally
sweet
carefully covered by the Café cook
to prevent burning |
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