Jewish Geography And Pornography Poem by gershon hepner

Jewish geography
is where all yidden meet,
and pornography
their harmless way to cheat,
far cheaper for a shnorrer
than paying for a broad;
oy veh, my yeytser hora
by neither can be bored.

In vita that is brevis
the world is very tiny,
but son of fair Bashevis
Singer, just like Heine
gewaltig, always turns
me on when he describes––
a Jewish Robert Burns––
the sex life of his tribe.

Inspired by an e-mail from Olga Litvak, informing me that Isaac Bashevis Singer received his first inspiration from Yiddish pornography. In her lecture at UCLA on November 8,2009 she had explained that Sholom Aleichem’s first story, “Dos Messerel” if full of phallic imagery

11/10/09