Can’t eat sweets
Don’t neglect beets

Mention meat
But don’t take that seat

Forgo trans fats
Black cats and bats

Sparing on butter
Candy and clutter

Consider insect roasts
For climate change boasts

Love leaves
Carefully embrace seeds

Try fishes’ charms
If small and unfarmed

Dream about that burger
If you’re a purger

Ingest patisserie
Only if guilt free

If it’s organic bask
Without that wine cask

If in doubt feel free
To smile and quote me

Few really know
The certainly certain, oh no

Jews flew early into Space
Star Trek’s Spock and Kirk were Jews
The Dune Messiah is Jewish, even
Wandering wizard Harry Potter
Is this our time to escape from Earth?

Four thousand years of boxing with God
And still our arms awfully short
We created Monotheism’s first great brand
Spun off two great world religions
Reaped the Crusades, the Inquisition
The Unnameable
Bodies vaporized to air
A trial run up to the Ether

Yet we now see that we are not alone
Men In Black proved we’re not the sole aliens
There’s a way off Earth, but what can we give?
ETs won’t care to plant trees in Israel
Yet we might convert them – to Jewish humor
Jewish comedians know, even Ukrainian presidents
Knowledge is finite, ignorance infinite
Every being in the Universe requires a good joke

Perhaps we’ll stop striving for gold stars in Hebrew class
Terrazzo and brass stars on Hollywood walks
Attaining far stars streaming in the firmament
Grandma said you need to aim high
The way this whole planet is going
All of us may soon need a ride

I can’t wait to learn the secrets of the world
Pointless pain only punishes
Microdosing strips the globe of woe after
Bad booze brewed my baby blues
Hate feeling empty and heavy

Vodka with lemon improves TV
Rich drones trashing homes, that’s fun
But why watch reality shows when
Reality just needs enhancing?
A couple of hits on the pipe and I
Become a fly, an eagle, a rocket
Visit you 

Porn pop-ups wet my eyes
Who wants romance when you can have sex?
These acrobats load quicker than my ex

Psilocybin may make you zen but
Ecstasy is therapy
Clients crave my consistent cool
I can make the real deal real
Spend my credits on new cache
Four-D videos pumping rodeos where
I’m wrangler, director, star
Wolf to everyone’s sheep

But on this goddam morning
Breast feeding transforms me
Oceans of love
Kid and I a new total universe
And I own all the real estate

Since sleep chose to turn enemy
Valium and beer became very dear
The secret of adoring life is
Not remembering the days before

Forgetting makes you free
Freedom-won’t you fight for that?

How long does it take to know you’ve cracked?
When I eat I taste knives
My son won’t talk to me, won’t
Let me know he’s alive and
I’ve lived for him

As a baby he close to died
Fever so bad it burned my hands, heart
Like a fluttering wheel
After that I could never leave him
If he lived I could hope
I’d take him to school, watch then cry

When kids hit him I hit them
When he missed school I wrote doctors’ notes
Smoking at ten, I looked away
One touch, one look, we were good

When he did coke I stuck him in rehab
Stole, I paid for the lawyer
Treated women like dirt but
I stumped his rent; I’m his mother
I kept him alive
And he won’t speak to me

Now I’m a bit like Mother Nature
Doing everything she can to save life
While it keeps roaring back to murder her
She and I will never have grandkids
We’re too old to be mothers again

Finally doctors bring great news
I’ll probably die before my kid kills me
I know that sounds crazy but I am crazy
I think Mother Nature’s crazy, too
Watching your kids destroy you?
Who deserves that?