Being a parody of Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
(See glossary below for translation of italicized words)
By Yossel Zweben (1929-  )

Moishe Ben Shlomo (may his nostrils drip!)
Awoke as they approached the landing strip
And saw within the cabin (business class)
A stewardess with an exciting ***.
The badge pinned to her ***** said Lorraine.
A life of chutzpah had made Ben Shlomo vain
And to the well-endowed hostess he said
“I bet that I could land us on my head!”
The crew who had endured his endless yack,
Found this the straw that broke the camel’s back,
And to this *******-up braggart they declared
“Our magazine contains a questionnaire
To test your aptitude to fly this plane.”
“What a metsieh,” thought Moish, wracking his brain
And mentally the crew echoed his thought
As, finally, they got the peace they sought.
When El Al published names that had been blessed.
Oy veh!  Ben Shlomo’s name had failed the test.

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& out from the stick figure POETS

LEW emerges !!

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real words !

Finding their own OY VEH

thru the bistros and cafés

Out thru the neoned madness

To the peopled dream

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Beyond the jaundiced eye
Beyond the narcissism
Of the broken mirror

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Can you see who MUST be here ?

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Blazing Light  

Brazen with pure poetic fervor

Human beings need to know eachother

LOVE AND HATE

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If you'd be

Of true poetic sensibility

Follow ! -- you may

Act courageously

Anytime you dare face

The world and it's hostility

To the love that still is here

the  sense that the only thing worth sensing
is broken

humanity...........my god and lover merging and mating

in the fields that are dying and the air
i can hardly breathe any more

images of children dressed as ******

distract us from the knowledge
of what's "closing in"

ah, but i love you still

still in your ****** sense
of love-making

still raising families

as if they have any
chance to live at all

escaping the death-like
stupor
of guilt

i
eye you completely

up and down

and

if i have to wake up again

as if the sun rising is actually the beginning
of
a DAY
here

all i can say

is

"i will never betray you
and
i
will
try
to
be
a
heroic
lover
still