Every biting winter
was fall's soft cliché,
every aperçu
was a drunken bawl.
The queer tongue of our ancestors
is enlivened by the dead
and cobbled by curses.
I've been to countries
where that all lives on.
They saddle up their sins
and shout after the nag:
Improvement by degrees!
2/3/08
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Hello Mr. Berger,
ReplyDeleteI could not find your email, so I am contacting you with this comment.
We are a group of Yiddish lovers from Israel, that decided to contribute to Yiddish language by offering private and small groups Yiddish online lessons. For that purpose, we have created http://eYiddish.org .
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Relevant information:
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