“Olivetti Lettera” by Ron Padgett:
Good-bye, little Lettera.
It was nice with you again.
I once loved a girl and oh
Well I once loved a girl.You are so small, the way
what I remember is
packed into my human skull
and it’s dark in there.And it’s singing in there,
this typewriter who is a
girl, then, an Italian girl,
undressing, slowly, in the dark.
(From Collected Poems © 2013 by Ron Padgett. Used by permission of Coffee House Press. Photo of an Olivetti Lettera typewriter by Luca Violetto)
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