Dirge for Israel

Dirge for Israel

by John Hawkins

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for Sy Hersh

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My live-in girlfriend as an undergrad was a Jew,

and she would say, "The glitter is in everything."

And thus, she imbued the world with a hope

I had never seen, and, really, haven't seen since --

since we broke up acrimoniously. I still remember

the tears I hid behind (she found someone else on a trolley)

laughing at Eddie Murphy in Delirious at the local bar.

Luckily, I was too into the Jew Dylan and his Jesus period

(Save this, I said to my sweethearting jissabel,

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