There is social distancing in Jerusalem

Mostly among Romans and Greeks and Jews

Who don’t much like each other anyway –

How is this day different from all other days? 1

 

This year there is no parking-lot procession

That’s good; the timing of the hymn in front

Never matches the timing ‘way in back

And the mail-order palms are sanitized

 

What hosannas this season, you may well ask:

Wave the virus and proclaim, “Wear your mask!”

  

1Cf. The Seder

 

(This is only a bit of wry humor; good hygiene is always a matter of caritas in protecting others as well as one’s self.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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