Visions of fudge, cookies and cake
sugar-plums moist and plump when baked
Sides of honey-dipped vanilla graham snackers
What do I get? ~ A week of dry matzo crackers
You'll want to cover yourself.
I've got circumcision scissors in my pocket.
I'm liable to use them.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Abraham by faith,
Circumcision is by heart,
Not in words or chart.
Men who have been subject to a circumcision
experience 60 percent less ****** sensation
than men who currently still possess their foreskin.
Torah! Torah! Torah!
Check it out
Ten Commandments of
six hundred (more or less)
for the good deed that goes unpunished
and only the good die Jung? I guess,
it’s a hit
or mitz -vah
whether moyel shall take a bit, more or less;
well, he should have it well in hand
if you think neutral thoughts
during the bloody process
(which may be hard to do–
ahh, there’s the rub
in this Shake-a-spear
tragedy of Love’s laborer, Lost
on this Twelfth Night of your thirteenth year,
you grinning ear to ear,
you contemplate Romeo’s
“It’s soft, what knife through yonder
foreskin breaks. . .” or some such soliloquy
in this tiny Hamlet by some shore.
Lo! The deed is done
(and not much fun)
manhood swaying with a gentle bris
and all the helpful hints
Gone With the Wind amidst
your screams: It Hertz
and Dr. Edward Scissorhands, responded,
“Frankly, Scar-less, I don’t give a damn.”
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