Friday, April 20, 2018
How Life Sounds
-Ralphie couldn’t have loved Sol more!
-For years and years...if I understand?
-Distilled it on his blog. A beautiful tribute!
How do I…?
-Just Google A Big Jew Passes.
-Oh? As a fellow Big Jew, I don’t
know how much I like that.
-His way.
-Lots of haters too!
Labels: antisemitism, death, grief, love, pain, tribute
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
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Home Truth
-Little Joey came home from school with a book about Hitler.
-I don’t know if I like that.
-And he read the whole thing, even skipping video games.
-What was his eleven year old’s conclusion?
-“He hates the Jews, just like Grandpa.”
-Well, that’s extreme. Your father...
-would’ve turned the handle to let the gas in.
-My God, Joe, do you really mean...?
-Hey, there’s a lot of hatred in this country, against blacks, Hispanics. But the real keystone is Jews. Too much sugar-coating: let’s admit it. When Fox and those others go after Liberals, who do you think they see in their diseased mind’s eye?
-It was a code word as far back as Agnew. Not so much now, methinks. Anyway...more time passes, more it goes away.
-Yeah, time that is. Not Jew-Hatred.
-Well, he’s your father.
-We’ve long ago given up on screaming over the kitchen table
and are just waiting for him to die.
-Yeah, but he must know how you really feel.
-I hope not. He’ll change his will.
-So, it has become go along to get along lo these many years?
-Pretty much.
-And when he buys the farm, you get a string
of hardware stores?
-Yup.
-Are you interested in hardware?
-Not in the least. They’ve all got good managers,
so it’ll be more of a cash machine at first.
-Send little Joey to Yale?
-Probably. Maybe he’ll get interested in the
family business then.
-Too capitalistic.
-My plan is to make it pretty much profit sharing: every employee getting a stake.
-Too socialistic! The old man’ll start spinning in his grave and never stop.
-Devoutly to be wished. Maybe I can bury a Jew beside him.
They can spin together.
-Uh uh. More like in opposite directions.
-Little Joey came home from school with a book about Hitler.
-I don’t know if I like that.
-And he read the whole thing, even skipping video games.
-What was his eleven year old’s conclusion?
-“He hates the Jews, just like Grandpa.”
-Well, that’s extreme. Your father...
-would’ve turned the handle to let the gas in.
-My God, Joe, do you really mean...?
-Hey, there’s a lot of hatred in this country, against blacks, Hispanics. But the real keystone is Jews. Too much sugar-coating: let’s admit it. When Fox and those others go after Liberals, who do you think they see in their diseased mind’s eye?
-It was a code word as far back as Agnew. Not so much now, methinks. Anyway...more time passes, more it goes away.
-Yeah, time that is. Not Jew-Hatred.
-Well, he’s your father.
-We’ve long ago given up on screaming over the kitchen table
and are just waiting for him to die.
-Yeah, but he must know how you really feel.
-I hope not. He’ll change his will.
-So, it has become go along to get along lo these many years?
-Pretty much.
-And when he buys the farm, you get a string
of hardware stores?
-Yup.
-Are you interested in hardware?
-Not in the least. They’ve all got good managers,
so it’ll be more of a cash machine at first.
-Send little Joey to Yale?
-Probably. Maybe he’ll get interested in the
family business then.
-Too capitalistic.
-My plan is to make it pretty much profit sharing: every employee getting a stake.
-Too socialistic! The old man’ll start spinning in his grave and never stop.
-Devoutly to be wished. Maybe I can bury a Jew beside him.
They can spin together.
-Uh uh. More like in opposite directions.
Labels: antisemitism
