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Article: Sunday School. (Poetry).(Poem)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
- Author:
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SUNDAY SCHOOL
No, Hebrew school kids, after-school kids, Sunday school kids, you don't
get it--
this was school-school, the only school--there was no candy for reading
transliteration--
this was no pre-mitzvah jack-off with the rabbi, what color, who's doing
the invitation--
this was all-day work camp, memorize, my brother's keeper--
the dent between your nose and mouth the place Hashem wiped out your
baby brains--
put in all the stuff He wanted there--his heavy scale--
and we didn't do just the haphtarah, it was the whole bleeding parshah--
not sung, lained, with crowning vowels and nasal trill, voice cracking--
and no, not boker tov for good ...
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