Urbanity Without Much Profanity in Jews of Discretion

Immune to the charms of the bourgeoisie,
attuned to the ones of urbanity,
I see what the former don’t want me to see,
discreet, and without much profanity,
and what I describe in my poems I think
is always quite fully compatible
with being urbane, not profane, as I shrink
the egos of those who’re getatable.

When the bourgeoise acts in a way that’s illicit,
I generally am sympathetic.
By using language that’s explicit,
as polemic as poetic,
I make its flaws endurable,
although there is no way to cure it,
its flaws quite as uncurable
as the syndrome labeled Tourette.

Jewish individuals who prudently conceal, tone down, or avoid immediately proclaiming their Jewish identity in non-Jewish or gentile societies out of caution, historical wariness, or the need to blend in, have been described by the Egyptian-born Jewish writer André Aciman as “Jews of discretion.” It seems to me that this term discreetly describes the Jews of New York who indiscreetly support anti-Zionists like its mayor, Zohran Mamdani.