/// That scared baby should cut them some slack,
for The Weighing is not an attack.
All his kin, fisher-folk,
have a rule they invoke:
“If a catch is too small, throw it back.”
/// Belleville’s Triplets had always competed,
and the eldest remained undefeated.
To ensure that her son
was the heaviest one,
on her short skinny husband she cheated.
Bruce Schwartz
28 days ago
/// Sick experiment seen at its start—
orphaned triplets will be raised apart.
Heartless Doc’s a researcher.
Is it “nature” or “nurture”
that makes people kind, moral or smart?
/// He’ll keep track of them as they mature.
One raised rich, one bourgeois, one reared poor.
They will still look alike,
but diverse milieux strike
at genetics in factors obscure.
/// Decades pass, they will meet just by chance,
their relationship grasped at a glance.
In comparing their lives
they each wed redhead wives,
but they each prefer books to romance.
Bruce Schwartz
28 days ago
/// Ancient covenant of circumcision
has for some been a source of derision.
But with supervision
this tiny incision
will be safe… if it’s done with precision.
/// If the mohel is paying attention,
then the baby feels no apprehension.
Fed a few drops of wine,
soon the infant feels fine.
Those who wince are the squeamish grown menschen.
/// I have yet, in my long life, to hear
of a foreskin saved as souvenir.
Yet, the cells have appliance
now to Medical Science;
helping burn victims’ scars disappear.
/// Though most may be disposed of with haste
as examples of medical waste,
if this tissue can aid
those in need, I’m afraid
some misgivings may well be misplaced.
MASTERPIECE #2915
from April 19, 2022
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/// That scared baby should cut them some slack,
for The Weighing is not an attack.
All his kin, fisher-folk,
have a rule they invoke:
“If a catch is too small, throw it back.”
/// Belleville’s Triplets had always competed,
and the eldest remained undefeated.
To ensure that her son
was the heaviest one,
on her short skinny husband she cheated.
/// Sick experiment seen at its start—
orphaned triplets will be raised apart.
Heartless Doc’s a researcher.
Is it “nature” or “nurture”
that makes people kind, moral or smart?
/// He’ll keep track of them as they mature.
One raised rich, one bourgeois, one reared poor.
They will still look alike,
but diverse milieux strike
at genetics in factors obscure.
/// Decades pass, they will meet just by chance,
their relationship grasped at a glance.
In comparing their lives
they each wed redhead wives,
but they each prefer books to romance.
/// Ancient covenant of circumcision
has for some been a source of derision.
But with supervision
this tiny incision
will be safe… if it’s done with precision.
/// If the mohel is paying attention,
then the baby feels no apprehension.
Fed a few drops of wine,
soon the infant feels fine.
Those who wince are the squeamish grown menschen.
/// I have yet, in my long life, to hear
of a foreskin saved as souvenir.
Yet, the cells have appliance
now to Medical Science;
helping burn victims’ scars disappear.
/// Though most may be disposed of with haste
as examples of medical waste,
if this tissue can aid
those in need, I’m afraid
some misgivings may well be misplaced.