Alicia Suskin Ostriker Poetry Sayings

Alicia Suskin Ostriker Poetry Sayings

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

and my friend Karen remembers
as a little girl
studying Hebrew she inquired

of her refugee tutor who stroked his beard
and said in Yiddish if there is a god
or if there isn't a god

a Jew studies-isn't that a good story
beloved, but the woman in me
says that the poet lies

the poet can afford to lie

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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and my friend Karen remembers
as a little girl
studying Hebrew she inquired

of her refugee tutor who stroked his beard
and said in Yiddish if there is a god
or if there isn't a god

a Jew studies-isn't that a good story
beloved, but the woman in me
says that the poet lies

the poet can afford to lie

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