Was that pink-toothed boy who
stuck his foot in my face
a Jew?
I thought a Heeb as holy as him could understand
that a kid doesn’t need a black skullcap to know
that You’re up there, and I’m down here.
He lifted his brown shoe
right over the bus seat and kicked me
in my mouth and made my lip bleed.
Who was right? A Jew against a Jew.
Ben Hackman is a young poet living in Toronto. He is the Founding Editor of the Molotov Rag, Toronto's Anarchist Quarterly, and the voice and face of The Holy Gasp, a damn-the-Man beatnik revival conga act. His poetry has most recently appeared in Jones Avenue and the Literary Review of Canada, and is forthcoming in Canadian Literature.
Bluebell
- Vanessa Paschakarnis
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