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The Deviator

Erasure poetry, based on Sotah tractate, Women’s Order, Talmud Bavli, 2022

 
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Chapter One: The Jealous One, No. 10.

If you lie to me this time,
Remember father
That lies in the jailhouse tonight,
After each and every one
Brought his wife before him
So she conceives.
After him is named,
From now on,
The entire world.
By his force
My blood fell ill.
Like a needle in living flesh,
It knew the secret of sages.

Here is our father
Whom all eyes are watching.
When she demanded, he told her:
You are an orphan.
You are impure.
And planted an *orchard
And named it the world.

*Orchard (Pardes):
Peshat; surface, literal meaning.
Remez; hint, allegorical meaning.
Derash; inquire, comparative meaning through similar occurrences.
Sod; secret, mystical meaning


Chapter Two: Shall Bring, No,

In the book, 
All that inscribed in ink 
Shall be erased at night.

According to the sentence
The Deviator tractate
Is invalid.


Chapter Three: Shall Take, No. 23.

I do not drink
And all the married ones are burrened.
The daughter of Israel
Is burned,
Eaten,
Eaten,
Violated to death
In the Holy of Holies sanctuary.

What distincts a man and a woman?
The man breaks out and breaks down
And the woman does not break out and breaks down.
The man excludes his son
And the woman does not exclude her son.
The man sells his daughter
And the woman does not sell her daughter.
The man is naked
And the woman is not naked.

And all the married ones are burrened.
And an Israeli is eaten.
Because he has a part in her.
Because she has a part in her.

And the poems scatter.


Chapter One: The Jealous One, No. 5.

Secretly, secretly 
He shall force a state of hell. 
A warning to the rude ones.

Every place, 
Every human with a spirit
Exists in the world 
And doesn't.

For we were a metaphor for a human 
Who enters a shelter.
And you are with me.
I am you.
I am you forever.

Mountains and heights and the field 
And the tall ones
Are amputated.

Every human with a spirit, 
His dust is not shaken.
Lay in dust.
Dwell in dust.
For dust has a spirit.
The divine is howling over it
From high afar.

Flesh and blood 
Of a flesh and blood religion.
Sees the high and doesn't see the low.
For every human in the world 
Is eyes.
Every human - a sea breeze.
And what is a sea with a human spirit,
In which there is nothing but one?

For no man's prayer is heard.
His heart is as flesh.
And he was flesh.
Human flesh.

Every human 
Who has a spirit 
Shall perish.


Chapter One: The Jealous One, No. 13.

Everything written in it 
was dropped today. 

Today fulfilled my days and years,
day to day and month to month. 

I can no longer come and go,
come and go,
come and go,
for one hundred twenty years
in one footstep.
For gates of wisdom were shut. 

And some say:
A nation stands here in the land
across a gaping home.
A sign within a sign.
And no one has a burial.


Chapter Two: Shall Bring, No. 15.

Leave me alone.


Chapter One: The Jealous One, No. 18.

One book
and not two and three books.
He wrote one letter 
and erased one letter.
And wrote one letter 
and erased one letter 
for two deviators 
and erased them in a cup. 

Writing for the sake of erasure.
Erase and repeat and stir. 
And if you find to say
there is a choice or there is no choice
or there is no one way. 

Before she was erased 
she says Amen.
Amen.
Amen to these.
Amen to the oath.
Amen of this man.
Amen of another man.
Amen, for I did not deviate.
Engaged and wedded and preserved.


Chapter Three: Shall Take, No. 22.

I am not of love.
Of fear.
What is of love?
Of fear.
Not of love,
Of fear of all women,
that they say: "They are impure".

She gives birth and does not improve, 
but degenerates and perishes.
She dies the same way.
and shall be burned.


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