Signed by Franz Paul Stangl, Commandant,
there is in Berlin a document,
an order of transmittal from Treblinka:
248 freight cars of clothing,
400,000 gold watches,
25 freight cars of women's hair.
Some clothing was kept, some was pulped for paper.
The finest watches were never melted down.
All the women's hair was used for mattresses, or dolls.
Would these words like to use some of that same paper?
One of those watches may pulse in your own wrist.
Does someone you know collect dolls, or sleep on human hair?
He is dead at last, Commandant Stangl of Treblinka,
but the camp's three syllables still sound like freight cars
straining around a curve, Treblinka,
Treblinka. Clothing, time in gold watches,
women's hair for mattresses and dolls' heads.
Treblinka. The trains from Treblinka.
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