Poems Inspired by Geography – with a side order of deconstructed chicken fat
By
David Gottfried
THE GEOGRAPHICAL PROPERTIES OF MANHATTAN ISLAND\
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Womanhattan
Sleek and Vertical
Physically fit
Chrome and Steal to smash you to bits
A graphic that gives you the finger
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Its womb is a rectangle called Central Park
That breeds infections in the dark
The crimes committed for a lark
Darling, sweetie, don't we look smart
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It narrows at the Southernmost tip
A Chinese empress's foot rather limp
But at the point of uttermost crimp
The jewels primp on proud promenade
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A polyglotted polygon
The earth decurved like a pentagon
We soldier for dollars until we are gone
For Bergdorf’s, Bloomies, emeralds of Oz
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The lady of liberty stands like a man
Exuding a matador's deathly elan
Her torch has the air of a battering ram
Of luminous lava of maddening span
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Its crown is a series of spikes in the sky
That knife through the night with a radiant shine
With electric pulsations to mock the divine
So Gaudy and gauche, and very porcine
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THE WOMANLY BEAUTY OF ISRAEL
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She was like a swan by a lake,
She was pained, bleeding bad.
She had a seven-mile waist,
which they all thought was too much.
Her feet all crimped in Eilat,
Like in China years ago.
And her shoulders:
swollen, clobbered, lonely
from arms severed,
sold to slavery
Venus di Yisroel
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But then she grew and got developed, settled down and sprawled around
She got a stomach in Judea and Samaria
And parked her supermarket cart over in the Sinai Mall
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And she was a woman called Golda,
An old lefty and a real hawk.
Such gems they don’t make anymore
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And for years they’ve wanted to put our lady on a diet, saying:
“Never mind that Iraq is made of Kurdistan, or that
almost every nation has evicted millions of refugees.”
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“Let’s just pick on the little Jewish girl in the corner of the room.
The girl that our teacher, Mrs. Holy Rome, says is an evil wanton Slut
The girl whom everyone loves to hate
The girl who is a millionaire and is engaged in a communist conspiracy against the millionaires”
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And the girl is pierced with nails from a suicide bomber.
JEWISH COOKING
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The women are cooking tsimmis and borscht and chicken soup
Everything simmers over burners
Of gas
The fluids are reduced
The Yiddish is refined
To a pure German core
And the grease at the bottom of the pan
The organic essence of the chicken fat
(Carbon rings, lording it over oxygen and hydrogen atoms, just a couple of reactions away from the hydrogen cyanide of the camps)
Is Indistinguishable from
Lard
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THE GEOGRAPHICAL PROPERTIES OF SICILY
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Sicily is sissy balls kicked into the Sea by the Italian boot
Raped by arabs and mamalukes and turks
Dressed up as Chorus Boys
In the Church of the Bloodied Altered Boy of
Jesus, their favorite Jew bleeding in his underwear
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A fucking freak show of Priests and perverts and the gorgeous
locks
Of a dark Mafia man
Take Christopher Moltesante of the Sopranos
His Midnight Eyelashes
And Saturday Night Specials
Redeem the whole bunch
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Quite a few people hate this poem, but I love it so open wide and swallow for David (And since it’s as precious as a communion wafer, no teeth.)
THE GEOGRAPHICAL PROPERTIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE SCREWING THE WORLD
ALTERNATIVELY TITLED
“STALINE A RAISON" – In the late 1930’s, Paris was saturated with graffiti proclaiming this message, roughly translated as “Stalin is right.”
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The blond bitch eats Vienna's twat in Anschluss
Her meaty thighs have Bohemia and Prague in a pincer
And her calves kick East, East, killing Slavs and Jews
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While the Pope and Il Duce suck on her titties
And her hands play Patsy cake with Marshall Petain
And her painted nails twinkle hello to the Klan back at home
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Where they love the bitch
Where the bitch is a boulder blocking the Bolsheviks
Like a Moon blotting out the sun in a Solar Eclipse
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But while the West stares East Like Lot's wife
It will be blinded
And the fires of the Moscovite Sun
Will burn the boulder of the Bitch
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David Gottfried, Copyright, 1995 to 2010