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  • Gimme a Break!
  • Benjamin Friedlander (bio)

Moral cowardice is a means to an end,so don't pass judgment until the reviews are in.

You may learn something new. For instance,that Nell Carter is Jewish.

I want to be a credit to her amazing race,but not if it means coming in last.

Like Paul, some bottom rung avatar pitching Christ's ideasto the workshop. I mean the Iraq Study Group.

And stop confusing Jews with "Orientals."We used to be, and that's cool.

But now that the peanut butteris out of the jar, we may as well make a sandwich

and eat it, cutting off "the crust"to suit our taste. Save your tears for the jelly:

nobody really cares until the sandwich bagsstart piling up, and every day becomes [End Page 99]

The Last Supper. Notice that the Lictorscould administer a twenty-mule team

hauling ore from the borax minesand the liberal media would forgive them.

Some religion, that …that … red heifer, Emma Goldman

is our ticket to rebuildingconsumer confidence in a process

of drilling or scrapinginto the skull,

thus exposing the dura mater.I 'd like to put my foot in it,

testing the bottomsince it can't be seen

sitting still. Fold upthe envelope and put it in the letter.

OK, go one more step,and now left, a meter or so

and stop. There.How does an inference become

a lawof nature?

A little candylaced with kindness helps.

Benjamin Friedlander

Benjamin Friedlander is the author most recently of The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes (Subpress, 2007) and Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2004). He teaches at the University of Maine.

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