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by Lenore Weiss
Source: Come Untogether (2004), p26
Lashanah haba'ah b'Yerushalayim
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because why would I choose to be in a land
of war and death where children
blow themselves up because they have no future?
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because I don't understand why the Israeli government
continues to sacrifice the interests of its own people
at every checkpoint.
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because I can't continue telling a story about renewal
when I only see a land filled with shredded skin
and buldozed olive trees.
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because how can I pretend this isn't happening
like some media cover-up that's come to occupy
my heart with its lies?
Next year I only want to be in Jerusalem with you
to fill an extra cup of wine at the table
for our Paslestinian brothers and sisters,
so we may share the stories of those who died
so we may all set oursledves free from fear and hatred.
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Donald Duck Shabbat
by Lenore Weiss
Source: Public and Other Places (2003) p. 28
Between opening
And closing of the ark,
Torah is taken
from its hiding place,
while an infant is passed
from his father's sling pouch
into his mothers arms.
Pressed against a wooden pew
she gives the child
a blue and white Donld duck doll
as their lips move in prayer,
both parents recite Hebrew
eyes shut,
while the child's fingers
flirt with shiny buttons
and white fuzz,
nostrils sunk
deep in duck feathers.
Only lovers
can hear each other's quack.
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