Thursday, June 02, 2011
Reenacting
FATHER
Kids wanted to know should they soap Jew or Jude on the windows? Told them I like Jude for historical resonance.
FRIEND
Won’t the merchants be mad? Especially the nons?
FATHER
Just after we booze-out here, you and I stagger downtown
and wash the windows by dawn’s early light.
FRIEND
I knew was catch for that terrific steak.
FATHER
Catch? Educating youngsters is hardly that!
FRIEND
Oh well, cleaning up after youth can be a moral imperative.
FATHER
Until they can do it for themselves. Jeremy won’t be inclined, methinks. He says Hitler had the right idea.
FRIEND
My God! You can’t let him persist in that!
FATHER
Not sure.
FATHER
Kids wanted to know should they soap Jew or Jude on the windows? Told them I like Jude for historical resonance.
FRIEND
Won’t the merchants be mad? Especially the nons?
FATHER
Just after we booze-out here, you and I stagger downtown
and wash the windows by dawn’s early light.
FRIEND
I knew was catch for that terrific steak.
FATHER
Catch? Educating youngsters is hardly that!
FRIEND
Oh well, cleaning up after youth can be a moral imperative.
FATHER
Until they can do it for themselves. Jeremy won’t be inclined, methinks. He says Hitler had the right idea.
FRIEND
My God! You can’t let him persist in that!
FATHER
Not sure.
Labels: antisemitism, education, Jew, Jude, reenactment
