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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4225 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Tefillah Jake (Jason Jones) My first crush is a Jewish boy who lives down the street in a beige house limned by lawn ironed flat as baize on billiard slate. No trees or flowers dare grow, break lines mowed clean by his father whose shadow casts fear in boys, makes them hide. On Saturday, shades and drapes drawn tight, the house looks taut as a drum awaiting a downbeat. I imagine him captive, made to kneel and sing chant the Torah, yarmulke pinned and tentative atop a shock of nutbrown hair. I plan a secret mission, mitzvah to sneak him a prayer for release, a prayer asking God to accept his six days of labor, smile on our friendship, grant the gift of play on Sabbath so I might plant a helpless kiss and pray for new growth. |
