The Talmudic In Socio-Political Matters I Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

It's not a matter of
wanting to be or not
involved in Jewish stuff.
It is that such matters
are already around and
to a large extent part of us.

For instance,
I claim to understand
Einstein's theories. I bank &
drink with Rothschild.
Rothko & Chagall
hang on my walls.

In my thoughts
now and then Freud slips in.
I sometimes swear
by Jesus but contribute
heavily* to His State.
* More than 30 shekels!

I often wonder where
we would be without
the twelve apostles
Leonard Bernstein or Cohen
or the Gershwin brothers.
I know in writing this

I tread on thin water,
but have faith, like
Alice B. Toklas had
in Gertrude Stein,
that I am lighter
than water.

Well, I could go on
but will pause for a glass
or two of Manishevitz
and read an unauthorized
biographies of Hart Moss &
Sarah Bernhardt.

And yet, not wanting to live
my life through the lives of
others I always come back to
mine so that my goy ego name
might one day be added
to this foreshortened list.

Baruch, Rube Goldberg, Mahler, Copeland, Bob Dylan, Bill Maher,
Mordecai, Jonas Salk Nostradamus, Richard Feynman, Frida Kahlo,
Elvis Presley, Al Rosen, Carl Sagan, Edward Teller, Arthur Miller,
Imanuel Velikovsky, Franz Kafka, Modigliani, Golda Meir, Niels Bohr,
Allen Ginzberg, David Mahmet, J.D. Salinger, Leonardo da Vinci,
Isaac Azimov, Frank Gehry and maybe even Christopher Columbus.

Well, I don't want to skew
too much the Semite way
without mentioning
the other not so gentile side.

Stalin, Gengis Khan, Mussolini, Eichman, Atila the Hun, Hitler,
Idi Amin, Nero, Omar al-Bashir, Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein
and I'd throw in a Bush or two unless we don't count the two wars
Iraqi dead Well, ok! There was Herod but all I am envious is
of his ten wives. But that's not such a bad thing and of course
there was Jesus.

Laheim!