Socialist Poem by gershon hepner

If Jesus was the greatest socialist
the world has seen, we should inquire
why he ranks highly on the kosher list
of people whom conservatives admire.
Perhaps they only think that he is kosher
because their tactics are to play it safe,
supporting, though they're right, the side that's gaucher,
not stoning those glasshouses that are treif.

Simon Romero 'Chavez Begins New Term Vowing Socialism, ' NYT, January 11,2007) reports that Hugo Chavez describes Jesus as 'the greatest
socialist in history'.


1/11/07