"Jewish Haiku" joke
After the warm rain
the sweet smell of camellias.
Did you wipe your feet?
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Her lips near my ear,
Aunt Sadie whispers the name
of her friend's disease.
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Today I am a man.
Tomorrow I will return
to the seventh grade.
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Testing the warm milk
on her wrist, she sighs softly.
But her son is forty.
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The sparkling blue sea
reminds me to wait an hour
after my sandwich.
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Lacking fins or tail
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty.
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Like a bonsai tree,
your terrible posture
at my dinner table.
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Beyond Valium,
the peace of knowing one's child
is an internist.
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Jews on safari -
map, compass, elephant gun,
hard sucking candies.
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The same kimono
the top geishas are wearing:
I got it at Loehmann's.
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The shivah visit:
so sorry about your loss.
Now back to my problems.
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Mom, please! There is no
need to put that dinner roll
in your pocketbook.
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Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.
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Sorry I'm not home
to take your call. At the tone
please state your bad news.
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Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I've done?
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Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast: feh
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Passover
Left the door open
for the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.
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Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Meshuganah
Oy! To be fluent!
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Quietly murmured
at Saturday services,
Yanks 5, Red Sox 3.
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A lovely nose ring,
excuse me while I put my
head in the oven.
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Hard to tell under the lights.
White Yarmulke or
male-pattern baldness.
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