The Undertaker’s Tale of the Notebook Measuring 1 x 2 cm

For forty years I have had in my possession:

A notebook, morocco-bound and blue in colour

which was so small it could be covered over by a thumb.

I found it at the bottom of her

apron pocket;

And for forty years I have had in my throat

the rotten apple of Mordovia

which for forty years

I could not swallow;

And I have held in my possession

the year Nineteen-Forty-

One:

a year too small for her

to write in.