Travels With Einstein Poem by Michael Burch

Excerpts from "Travels with Einstein"
by Michael R. Burch

for Trump

I went to Berlin to learn wisdom
from Adolph. The wild spittle flew
as he screamed at me, with great conviction:
"Please despise me! I look like a Jew! "

So I flew off to 'Nam to learn wisdom
from tall Yankees who cursed "yellow" foes.
"If we lose this small square, " they informed me,
earth's nations will fall, dominoes! "

I then sat at Christ's feet to learn wisdom,
but his Book, from its genesis to close,
said: "Men can enslave their own brothers! "
(I soon noticed he lacked any clothes.)

So I traveled to bright Tel Aviv
where great scholars with lofty IQs
informed me that (since I'm an Arab)
I'm unfit to lick dirt from their shoes.

At last, done with learning, I stumbled
to a well where the waters seemed sweet:
the mirage of American "justice."
There I wept a real sea, in defeat.

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