From the new-and-improved Dry Bones blog, cracking up Jews since 1974.
(Just in case you’ve been sleeping, the president of Iran hates you. And yer mom.)
Shabbat Shalom and merry pre-Halloween…
Yo, Yenta!
From the edge of the Diaspora rises a new generation of Jewish mother
fat chance buddy!!
exterminators
before her tiny needle
pinches my protruding vein,
the Red Cross blood drive nurse
thanks me for volunteering.
my type is rare,
so hard to find that
I offer my container of it
when I die.
she thanks me again,
ecstatic about my fountain
of bright red gallons
until I say
only for Palestinians
and she checks my chart.
but youre Jewish
and they refuse Jew blood
I interrupt. she nods.
then offer it to Iraqis.
she flinches.
or Iranians
or Syrians
or Egyptians
or leave it unmarked
for desperately needy victims
of a Jewish bus bomber.
she is pale and shaky;
she misses her first stick.
she mixes an apology with
but there are no Jewish bus bombers.
I roll down my sleeve,
hand her my business card,
offer to answer her call if it comes
before the next Holocaust
B.Koplen 11/1/05