Lila is one year old today. How’d that even happen? One minute she’s a little pink soft thing and then suddenly… she’s a little pink soft thing. But one that crawls, eats, walks (with a LOT of help), points, grabs, gives you things, chews up the world and has a world of ‘character’, as they do. Its amazing. And she’s funny. Well I think so. Endlessly funny. Once she gets the whole ‘gravity’ thing, once she gets a grip of ’cause & effect’, that’ll change things a bit, but for now, Happy Birthday baby.

Meanwhile, on the day when the Times found a website, with 400,000 Corbyn devotees, that is a cesspit of anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying, anti-Isreal, ‘death-to-the-jews’ type rhetoric, I’d like to wish all the victims a happy Passover. This website, which doubtless Jezza and Johnny will claim they had nothing to do with, it just bears their names in the group title, but they probably ‘didn’t know’ about is the most evil thing yet about our Opposition Party in Government. So in protest, I’m going to share with you a little poem I wrote the other day. I was ‘commissioned’ for our Passover Seder, at which ‘the story’ is told every year, to tell the tale of ‘The Wandering Jew’. A phrase I’d heard but knew nothing about. Fortunately Wikepaedia knew lots.

It was way back when in biblical times, if you will believe,
Harry Kane and Abel, Adam and his lovely Eve.

But it wasn’t all Gardens of Eden, if you know what I mean
Living under the Romans wasn’t even Willesden Green

Like Jesus walking up a hill, on his back a great wooden cross
“Look at ‘im” said a nearby jew, “must’a really upset his boss.”

Jesus looked a’flame with anger, seething, could hardly speak
Not like previous times when he just turned the other cheek.

Then he found his voice and cursed this Jew to forever wander and roam
never to have a roof over his head, never to live in a home

And this for all eternity, at least til the second coming
and as the first was yet to occur the timescale was truly stunning

Hence the jew, a cobbler he was by trade,
set off on his travels, his very long future now completely unmade.

He now had two names though, if that was any consolation,
he was the wandering jew and the eternal jew, both in total damnation.

His tale would endure right down the years, in books and stories told
cropping up in every Christian country both new and indeed old.

But never, it must be said, with sympathy or any understanding
Always reviled, always hated and cursed, his smell notwithstanding.

The legend of the wandering jew thus was to subtly change
to a metaphor for resentment and hate, just like Julian Assange.

“ERE” they’d yell, “I’ve just seen the wandrin’ jew”, but of course, in Russian or Polish or Czech
“Let’s get him now, kick him to shit for wot ‘e done to Jesus; what the heck!!”

“Ok Igor, which way’d he go and what’s he bloody look like?”
“Ya can’t miss him, black hat, long beard, looks really like any old kike.”

Why did Jesus curse this man, lacking his normal genteel, gentile compassion?
Instead merely setting him up for often and royal thrashing?

Maybe Jesus was a Corbynite, filled with that Momentum hate
for the religion he rejected back then, but Christ, its never too late.

Provenance unknown. Circa 57ad

Happy Easter Sunday/Passover day 2

A xxxx