Demut, Ressemblance

צלם ודמות

Is picking plums a plum job?
Snatching those things and then
Pop 'em in the mouth is a plum job.
Writing this is not a plum job.
Reviewing it might be one.

The front office oozes with plum jobs and dough
The back office offers but toil and even so
Makes no chore but a graft in most cases.

Pop in the plums and shut your mouth after it;
You'll have plump cheeks but
You're still created in god's own image, as the
Bible says, and Reb Chaim comments on it:
It's just you don't look like god
––The utter plum as well as the utter plumber––
You've only fallen plum into the same set-up, man.

When you say that you feel like a dumbass
You don't have neither that dumb ass's ears
Nor its actual grayness––you're
Stuck plum in its dumb situation, that's all.

Out of that given situation
You've got to create something
You don't even know if it will turn out
A dumb or a plum thing something, but anyways:
You'll never be the merry sponger who reviews it.
This one isn't even made in your own image.

February 19, 2008