FOURTH OF JULY MEDITATION


Bombs bursting in air.

Of course.

Why not?
Still, who is here who is not glad to be here?
Well,

There's the old countries.

See your bride blown up on your visit to Sicily.
In auld Erin you're too fast and they're too slow
And you're just another Yank.
My land is the Ukraine. How's that
For a laugh.

We got out around the time of the
Kishinev progrom, and a little before the Beilis trial.

There's Israel, our mythic homeland.
Always powerful.