Structure of Return

like god
to his throne in the clouds
chuckling
because his rabbis have outwitted him
in a debate

or at least that’s how
the rabbis tell the story

their wives in the kitchen
know the joke was in the knots
they tied in the soup noodles
he swallowed 3000 years later

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