Jewish Haiku- peotry for the holiest of seasons

>>>J E W I S H H A I K U
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>>>>After the warm rain
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>>>>the sweet smell of camellias.
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>>>>Did you wipe your feet?
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Her lips near my ear,
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>>>>Aunt Sadie whispers the name
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>>>>of her friend's disease.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Today I am a man.
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>>>>Tomorrow I will return
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>>>>to the seventh grade.
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>>>>Testing the warm milk
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>>>>on her wrist, she sighs softly.
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>>>>But her son is forty.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>The sparkling blue sea
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>>>>reminds me to wait an hour
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>>>>after my sandwich.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Lacking fins or tail
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>>>>the gefilte fish swims with
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>>>>great difficulty.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Like a bonsai tree,
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>>>>your terrible posture
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>>>>at my dinner table.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Beyond Valium,
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>>>>the peace of knowing one's child
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>>>>is an internist.
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>>>>Jews on safari --
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>>>>map, compass, elephant gun,
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>>>>hard sucking candies.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>The same kimono
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>>>>the top geishas are wearing:
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>>>>I got it at Loehmann's.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>The shivah visit:
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>>>>so sorry about your loss.
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>>>>Now back to my problems.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Mom, please! There is no
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>>>>need to put that dinner roll
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>>>>in your pocketbook.
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>>>>Seven-foot Jews in
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>>>>the NBA slam-dunking!
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>>>>My alarm clock rings.
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>>>>Sorry I'm not home
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>>>>to take your call. At the tone
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>>>>please state your bad news.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Is one Nobel Prize
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>>>>so much to ask from a child
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>>>>after all I've done?
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Today, mild shvitzing.
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>>>>Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
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>>>>Five-day forecast: feh
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Passover
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>>>>Left the door open
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>>>>for the Prophet Elijah.
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>>>>Now our cat is gone.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
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>>>>Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Meshuganah
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>>>>Oy! To be fluent!
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>>>>*****
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>>>>Quietly murmured
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>>>>at Saturday services,
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>>>>Yanks 5, Red Sox 3.
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>>>>*****
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>>>>A lovely nose ring,
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>>>>excuse me while I put my
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>>>>head in the oven.
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>>>>Hard to tell under the lights.
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>>>>White Yarmulke or
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>>>>male-pattern baldness