The Boring Cabinet

I have written political limericks for a number of years. Israeli politics provide me with many opportunities to express my disdain of the lowly level of party-political performance.

Those beasts are born in Hebrew, but sometimes I answer a friendly demand for an English version. Here is the English version of my late limerick, which was printed as a “letter to the editor” in Haaretz (June 23, 2021). I tried to respond to the sudden quiet and apparent efficiency of the new Bennet-Lapid government, à la “no drama Obama”. They seem to me as a group of people who simply come in to give us a day of work:

Behold, there’s a cabinet meeting tonight

With not a single defendant in sight

Indeed, it is such a bore

Putting the country to snore

Hey, this decorum is simply not right!

… And here is the original Hebrew version:

שׁוּרוּ, הַבִּיטוּ וּרְאוּ:  יְשִׁיבַת מֶמְשָׁלָה,

וְאֵין אֲפִלּוּ נֶאֱשָׁם אֶחָד לְהַתְחָלָה.

מֶמְשָׁלָה מְשַׁעֲמֶמֶת,

הַמְּדִינָה מַמָּשׁ נִרְדֶּמֶת!

אֵין סָפֵק. הַהֲגִינוּת הַזּוֹ הִיא תַּקָּלָה!

More to follow, eventually.