Bush is off
to the Azores
probably plotting war
He and the Brit and the Spaniard
had to do it
on an island in the Atlantic,
any real country
would have run them out of town
In old New York the Jewish world
is talking about a talking fish
who called on it to repent
A carp spoke in ancient Hebrew
to a Catholic and a Hasidic Jew,
he told them the end is near
They killed him
and mixed him
into gefilte fish
It has become a world wide story.
Many are calling it a miracle.
But some say it might only be
a Yippie Purim prank
And some possessed of wisdom
declare that God has now spoken -
spoken out against the war
I'll be marching today without the fish
Within with a crowd of peace comrades
Feeling solemn now
If this is the last antiwar march
before the war
When we will be only looking back
back upon innocent days.
© 2003 Stew Albert