Yeshu the Hasid

Michael Peach

(Dedicated to Geza Vermes)

A rambling rose amongst the weeds,
He twined his florid tales with deeds.

Jerusalem
25 March 1999

Despite my declining Physical state, Increasing introspection And aversion to

To those who don’t believe in afterlife King Lear is

According to Ophelia’s lament, When Hamlet’s words have made her

A source of Hamlet’s melancholic state Is tension ‘tween his

Now that DeSantis has ceded, Haley, an evangelical convert, May

When Hamlet found the Ghost’s account was true, While viewing