Saving A Damsel In Distress Poem by gershon hepner

You can’t save a damsel who loves her distress
unless, like a knight without armor,
you tell her it’s vital that she should undress
and promise oh never to harm her.

The damsel who says she’s distressed you can save
from a fate worse than death if you’re willing
to show her your lance like a knight, and behave
as though chivalry can be fulfilling.

After a gemara shiur in which I found an oblique reference to OJ Simpson’s felony problem in Las Vegas in the Babylonian Talmud Baba Batra 34a I watched the first episode of “Gossip Girl, ” a new show by Joshua Schwartz, the creator of “O.C.” Utter, rubbish, but it had a great line: “You can’t save a damsel who loves her distress.”