The Tightrope

Michael Peach

To keep one’s balance in Jerusalem
Means haunting the tightrope ‘tween East and West.

Jerusalem
27 November 1997

Without that Muse who once did him inspire, When he

Palistrael, the Anima and Soul Could Armageddon thwart And men

Some thirteen years ago a hell-bent horde Of bearded Yankee

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me: Israel’s America’s

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me:Israel’s America’s sacred

Because King Donald the Election won,The Tenth Crusade has finally