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Mar 8, 2024, 6:46 PM

Dead A** (subtitle: Germs in your fACE)

Hot cat/ Black cat/ Fat cat Laying in the sun... Don't touch the Fat cat Hot cat/ Black cat/ Fat cat Laying around the house Do Not Step on the Black cat

Sep 22, 2023, 10:27 PM

If I had a pickup truck… (a poem for winter)

If I had a pickup truck I'd pick you up to know And you would see the snowflakes fall that In my headlights glow If I had on my front bumper A snowplow shiny and blue I'd clear the way before the day Break and clear...

Jun 30, 2023, 6:56 PM

Three (more) Poems for the Summer

Untitled Because of the comatose tripod onlooker secrecy code, I swore I wouldn't tell (is what I am trying to say). Eventually I did learn how to communicate, but that was years later. I was not under oath, and anyway...

Apr 14, 2023, 6:12 PM

Lyrics to 3 (original) Ballads for ‘National Poetry Month’

"Sleepy Morning Rag" (swung in Ab major ; sung by a female vocalist) Murdered myself in the kitchen this mornin'/ Lettin' the sleep slowly drain from me brain/ These things to do, those people to see/ And now you see sleep...

Apr 11, 2023, 9:49 PM

Two Poems for ‘National Poetry Month[!]’

An Analysis of Three Personality Types Stable head individual You've lost your way Now they hear the noise In your once disciplined mind Grey-eyed sister You live easy as the western breeze That gentle floatation device Are your feet Asymmetric brother How you lack balance! The world laughs As you fumblestep...

Apr 8, 2023, 10:12 PM

[…] (an evangelical waltz for accordion)

(...an evangelical waltz for accordion) I wants to marry a moshav girl With cool homemade dress twirl A daughter of moshavnikim The daughter of "the Jewish Dream" I want to marry a moshav girl/ With sunkissed skin and natural curl; Whose Mother can knit and...

Dec 22, 2022, 12:01 AM

Life of Socrates (Part IV of a ToI series…)

XXVI The virus hit New York City in March of 2020. Many became ill, many died. The city was all but shuttered. Both Mom and Abba had to cancel their April vacation plans. The economy was headed for shambles. It...

Jun 26, 2022, 9:56 AM

Introducing ‘Far Star’ & Chatting w/Israeli Jazz Guitarist Gilad Hekselman

Far Star is the title Israeli-born jazz guitarist, composer, and bandleader, the consistently abuzz Gilad Hekselman, dubbed his new–or to be safe–most recent studio LP by a jazz combo which Hekselman headlines, released on and distributed by Edition Records....

Jan 2, 2022, 10:16 PM

Fire Song (an epic poem)

"FIRE SONG" Once upon a time there Was a sorcerer who wanted to steal all Of the light on the planet. He wore a crown made of Sulfate crystals which attracted Rays from the sun. He kept it all locked up in A special room underneath his...

Sep 10, 2021, 8:03 AM

9/11: A 20 Year Memorial: (The World Trade Center Mosque redux)

On September 11, 2001, I was packing my bags and headed out of my parents' house in the southern New England suburbs of New York City, to go out west and begin college. In the aftermath of the tragic...

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Scott Shlomo Krane has been blogging for TOI since February 2012. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Tablet, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post, the Daily Caller, Mic, JazzTimes and AllAboutJazz.com. Scott was a columnist and breaking news editor for Arutz Sheva-Israel National News (2011-2013). In addition to holding a degree in Judaic Studies and a Master's in English from Bar-Ilan University (for which he wrote his thesis on the poetry of American master, John Ashbery), he has learned Judaism at Hadar Ha'Torah Rabbinical Seminary in Brooklyn.

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