Brooding

It says right there in Beethoven’s Ninth

that all men shall be brooders.

And I don’t know how he could have anticipated

but he did: Trump and Israel and the USA.

I just thought of a great new curse:

May you have Israelis for neighbors!

That’s not antisemitic.

Take my word for it or else

Ask Lebanese or Palestinians or Syrians

or any number of other people how much fun it is,

especially when they have Trump as an alai,

and the USA acting like a 500 pound gorilla on a leash.