The Art of
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I’m half Russian serf<br />
half kike aristocrat;<br />
the Russian serf burps<br />
and hides, confused,<br />
his pot belly, his pimple-scarred cheeks,<br />
his snow-white beard<br />
in the crow’s nest <strong>of</strong> black facial hair<br />
that marks the aristocrat.<br />
He smiles with pity<br />
into the Christ-beard:<br />
what happened<br />
to that guy?<br />
BORIS LURIE, DECEMBER 30, 1990<br />
Germany!<br />
lies buried in the flesh<br />
close to<br />
my heart<br />
– the evacuated graves there are<br />
– two ladies-fingers, red-nail polished<br />
Thus my heart, beating<br />
itself on the kitchen<br />
chopping block,<br />
will always reek <strong>of</strong><br />
Deutschland<br />
– it calls me to judgment before the cooks<br />
– and into the pot pie.<br />
BORIS LURIE, JANUARY 11, 1991
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