by J. R. Solonche
For this you can blame Olmert.
For this you can blame Sharon .
For this you can blame Barak.
For this you can blame Netanyahu.
For this you can blame Peres.
For this you can blame Shamir.
For this you can blame Begin.
For this you can blame Meir.
For this you can blame Eshkol.
For this you can blame Dayan.
For this you can blame Ben Gurion.
For this you can blame Atlee.
For this you can blame Truman.
For this you can blame Balfour.
For this you can blame Jacob.
For this you can blame Esau.
For this you can blame Isaac.
For this you can blame Abraham.
For this you can blame God.
For this you can blame the desert.
J.R. Solonche is coauthor (with wife Joan Siegel) of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York.
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