Some Folks

Some Folks

Some folks enjoy
Taping mice to fireworks
Constructing planks with nails
For the roadways.

At the Music of Eurovision
Some folks don’t wish to allow
The Israelis to sing
One very small swipe
Since the October massacre
That unleashed & legitimized
The gluttonous devour of flesh.

Not enough headless corpses
To feed the gnawing lust
For some folks
From the Netherlands from Ireland
From Spain from Slovenia
From Tlaib from Tucker
They must condemn defiance--

That stubborn resistance to erasure by
Those partisans in tatters
From the ghettos, from Sobibor, Warsaw, Bialystok.
From Netanya, Kiryat Shmona, from Haifa.

For some folks
The Jew is most despised
When fighting back.