The Womanly Beauty of Israel
A Meditation on the Map of Israel and the Human Forms Lurking Therein -- And What Joan Rivers Had to Say
By
David Gottfried
THE WOMANLY BEAUTY OF ISRAEL
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She was like a swan by a lake,
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She was pained, bleeding bad.
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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
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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 millionaires.”
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And the girl is pierced with nails from a suicide bomber.
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INSPIRED BY EISENSTEIN'S "ALEXANDER NEVSKY"
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Teutonic knight
Titanic night
The Christian Right
Sings "Silent Night"
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In Gilded Courts
Guilty cohorts
Those feral sorts
Plan their blood sports
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For Jesus Christ
A bible heist
We Jews are sliced
We're minced and diced
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We're swallowed whole
Communion toll
Burned like a coal
Our diamond soul
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David's fillip
Adorns Europe
Psalms curve the lip --
They raise their whip
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The Yellow Stars
The Babi Yars
Kill Caesars, Czars!
All Germans, Mars!
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The Hindenburg
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Nazi Sausage
Fat Matron's Breast
Blond Beast's Corsage
On Heaven's Chest
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Oober ocean
Witch's Broomstick
Plying Passion
In withered wick
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Awaiting War
Sparks that glisten
Bombastic Boor
Pure and Christen
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Surveys New York
Hebraic Hordes
The savage Stork
Unsheathes its swords
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Sizzling City
Ignites to fight
Ghettoed glory
Will blight the night
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Old Testament
Eternal, true
Pummels Portent
Of Prussian crew
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Beer Belly Heaves
Infection spurts
The bile seethes
Appendix Bursts