This one goes out to AC. Her three stanza series was provocative and featured me in a starring role.
since when's "mcgee" a jewish name?
i tell you what i think
our fitty shifts religious views
to generate a stink
if that is fair (and no it's not)
i'll tell you what i'll do;
pretend that i'm a catholic
and not agnostic jew
so what i'm giving up for lent
should aggravate the rabble
not least of all our fitty p
i'll give up facebook scrabble!
Having not given up self-love for Lent, I'm so totally into that strategy. It also gives me an opportunity to point out that, three moves and two bingos in, it looks (for the precarious moment) as though I'm about to deal AC a once-in-a-blue-moon ass-kicking in Facebook Scrabble.
Pffft. No wonder she's giving it up till Easter.
And for the record, mom's Irish Catholic, which I guess makes me technically not a Jew. I *was* bar-mitzvah'ed at Masada and I grew up in the Valley, which makes me as Jewish as almost anyone else I know.
