High Holiday Poem: Who Shall Live

Who Shall Live

A layer of Saran Wrap

Protection

A shpritz of lemon juice

Secret

These red delicious will remain white

Without sin.

Who shall live?

And who shall dye their hair?

Who by pestilence?

Who by Pilates?

Nobody knows.

What is this ‘Jeopardy’?

Well it’s

Another year, spaceship earth has made one more elliptical orbit

-Planetarium narrator.

And I’m still here.

We’re still here.

God is the King

May the thorny crown be replaced by something more comfortable,

Say with a sweatband,

Perhaps in size six.

Heed the cry of the shofar!

Heed the blast of the shofar!

It is the cue for the kitchen help,

off with the Saran Wrap.

- Daniel S. Brenner