Thursday, February 1, 2024

the war on tunnels

why tunnels?

ask the mishna talmud and zohar

as they snake beneath the aching intellect

of a learning complex

why let tzitzis fly in a subterranean draft

dangling yiddish and russian assimilations

are cell phones permitted below ground

who lights gas lights on shabbas

what does the halacha say about crockpots

or the safe holding temperature

when tunnels are for passing through unseen 

death birth consumption regurgitation 

singing is it alive? our compassion for tunnels

whether they hold hostage

the imaginations or concrete pains

i have to imagine that beneath the earth

is a house of learning where all tunnels lead 

and the sojourners bear their true or false

righteousness like bruises from a fight with gravity


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