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December 19, 2018

Shema yisrael, adonai elohenu, adonai echad — 

watchword of the Jewish faith, declaring the oneness of God 

Listen Israel —

The lord is one.

The world is one.

Everything one. 

Created by the same creator

with the same atomic particles

in the same black bang.

Are you listening? 

No one is. 

We’re terrorized by terrorists,

suffocated by the smell of strangers 

who don’t know the lyrics to our song,

crawling back from AI truth

to 3-D myths of yesteryear

waiting for the savior 

who’ll convert our H2O to wine.

Ritalin’d and Klonopin’d, 

all we really want is peace

and a smaller piece of humble pie

in universe of blackened holes 

unmoved by what we’re praying for —

like prisoners trapped in Plato’s cave

unsure of the source of light.


Paula Rudnick is a former television writer and producer who has spent the past 30 years as a volunteer for nonprofit organizations. In the past several years, she has begun to write poetry — another nonprofit endeavor.

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