Moses Doesn’t Get – A poem for Parsha Haazinu (Aliyah 7)

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Look at the land, for I will allow you only to see the land from afar. You will not enter there—to the land I am giving the Israelites.

This is heavy.
We’ve known this guy
for four books now.

One mistake at a rock
and he’s Cancelled.
That’s capitalized on purpose

oh, editors,
oh, proofreaders
oh, book readers.

Learn from this.
Know where your water comes from.
Don’t deliver it in anger.

The repercussions won’t
take into consideration
your recently completed

forty-year project,
or your perfectly delivered
mountain-top song.

Moses, we wish you
could have seen what we’ve
done with the place.

We could certainly use
your Divine given guidance.
There never was

one like you before,
and, to my knowledge
hasn’t been again.

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