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Excerpts from “Travels with Einstein”

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.

 

Originally published by Café Dissensus

 

Keywords/Tags: Einstein, Adolph, ****** Berlin, Jew, Jews, Arab, Arabs, Palestinian, Palestinians, Vietnam, Vietnamese, American, Americans, Yankees, Domino, Theory, Dominoes, Jesus, Christ, Bible, Christian, Christianity, Slave, Slaves, Slavery, Israel, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

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