Monday, August 26, 2024

From the Talmud: Elegy 20

From the Talmud

 

You are not

obligated to complete

the work but neither

are you free

to abandon it.

What work to

Talk to you

Game of telephone

Without the phone

Just me mis-

Understanding myself

As words smack

Into walls like

Tortoises who never

Stop their rowing

My flippers flip

Ignoring the obstacle

Death deals us

Power out after

The storm / Hone

Meaning “sweet soft”

Hurricane force winds

“Make perfect / complete”

In Hindi / “sharpen”

As in a knife

Sweet soft knife

A kind ethics

Cut from corrupt

Papaya’s too-sweet flesh


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