Ditty, By Harvey Shapiro
Where did the Jewish god go?
Up the chimney flues.
Who saw him go?
Six million souls.
How did he go?
All so still
As dew from the grass.
From “Telling and Remembering,” edited by Steven J. Rubin (Beacon: 528 pp., $20 paper)
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