Without Exceptions There Can Be No Rules

Without a rule there can be no exception,

without exceptions there can be no rules.

All ideas depend for their perception

no less on wise men than on utter fools.

The rules are often undermined by all

who take exception to them, and may move

some erring fools to order their recall,

not realizing what exceptions prove.

Rules may be the source of homilies,

but it is on exceptions that they thrive,

these contradictory anomalies

enabling rules to flourish and survive.

However, they can also undermine

rules, as Bosch’s Garden of Delights shows well,

showing what’s benign can be malign

in a garden of delights turned into hell.

Without exceptions there of course can be

no rules, except for rules against deception.

To break these rules no ruler should feel free,

and for this rule there’s never an exception.

If a regime that’s led by Trump and Vance is

like that of post veni, vidi, vici, Paul and Jesus,

my question is: does this mean their romance is

a boon for Jews or for them a boon’s antithesis?