Gramen 2017

by Benjie Herskowitz

What can we say about the Free World's new leader?
He's got the IQ, and the attention span of a mosquiter
But what is really alarming, and concerns us loads
Is to think that Trump is responsible, for the nuclear bomb launch codes

Whod've guessed? - we never even saw it comin
That Israel's Baseball team, is really hummin 
Jews good in sports -- what a surprise!
Unless the players are really goyim in disguise

It really was rather, quite very shocking
When the Nobel Committee came knock, knock, knockin
They granted the Prize for Literature to singer Bob Dylan
But to accept the award, he was rather unwillin

Ehud Olmert's in the slammer, with very little hope
That’s what you get for accepting, Tulansky's stuffed envelope
In addition, he took bribes for his Holyland project binyan
Good news -- at least with all the Shas MKs in jail,
he's assured of a Megilah reading minyan

After all this time, she is seething still
As for her embarrassing loss, she blames husband Bill
Perhaps on Purim, she'll feel like drinking up a distillery
It's not so hard to bid goodbye to our old friend, Hillary

Who'd of thought, they'd have so much in common?
That Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, would even share something in a gramen
It seems that both of their residents have major pet peeves
Cause they began working on the Rakevet kallah, now in Tel Aviv

Bebe refuses to go down without a fight
Accepting expensive gifts and cigars, he claims, was well within his right
Bebe considers it all one big Purim joke
And thinks all the charges, will just "go up in smoke"

It seems that all Obama's accomplishments, those he held so dear --
Obamacare, and transgender bathrooms -- will soon disappear
The message the chag of Purim, surely does send 
Is -- if you mess with Israel, like Haman, you'll get it in the end

(Yeshivish)
The message of Purim, seems obvious to us all
What led to our victory, and to Haman's downfall
To witness Hashem's miracles, as well as his gadlus
All it takes is some fasting, and a bit of hishtadlus