Postmodern Culture

Damon, Maria.
The Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod: The Case of Lenny Bruce
Postmodern Culture - Volume 7, Number 2, January 1997

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Maria Damon - The Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod: The Case of Lenny Bruce - Postmodern Culture 7:2 The Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod: The Case of Lenny Bruce Maria Damon © 1997 PMC 7.2 To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb (Lenny Bruce, accompanying himself on drums): To is a preposition, come is a verb. To is a preposition, come is a verb. To is a preposition, come is a verb, the verb intransitive. To come. To come. I've heard these two words my whole adult life, and as a child when I thought I was sleeping. To come. To come. It's been like a big drum solo: Did ja come? Didja come good? Didja come good didja come good didja come good? Recitatif: I come better with you sweetheart than with anyone in the whole goddamn world. I really came so good. I really came so good 'cause I love you. Really came so good. I come better with you sweetheart, than anyone in the whole world, I really came so good. So good. BUT. Don't come in me. Don't come in me. Don't come imme, mimme mimme don't come imme mimme mimme don't come in me. I CAN'T COME. Cause you don't love me, that's why you can't come. I love you I just can't come, that's my hangup. I can't come when I'm loaded, all right? Cause you don't love me. Just what the hell is the matter with you? What has that got to do with loving you? I just can't come, that's all. Now if anyone in this room or the world finds those two words decadent, obscene, immoral, amoral, asexual, the words "to...