Pre-Yom Kippur 2024

I am not Jewish, despite having been circumcised at birth at Boston Lying-In. The doctors were Yankees. My birth certificate even denotes my having been mutilated in accordance with the Anglo-Saxon upper class beleiving that boys masturbated less without a foreskin. Idiots. We were told that this barbaric custom was for hygiene. Poof! Religious fanatics ruin our heaven on earth, but this coming weekend is Yom Kippur. Presently I'm back working as a diamantaire in Montauk with Cousin Richie. Jews have their schlongs schnitted post-birth, since The Torah states that God made a covenant with Abraham, and that every male among the Jewish people should be circumcised as an outward sign of this covenant. Anthropologists state that for the Masaai, Polynesians, and First People around the globe circumcision was a rite of passage for young men as a test of bravery and endurance, a ritual mutilation, a sacrificial spilling of blood. In 2029 a Masaai warrior told me that at thirteen or the coming of puberty the tribal doctor had cut his manhood before the entire clan with friends taunting him, as they received the 'button-hole' technique pulls the glans of the penis through an incision in the foreskin, leaving a portion of foreskin hanging as a permanent appendage Thankfully I don't remember my circumcision, but just imagine the horror of emerging into this cruel world and your first welcome is a man with a knife. No wonder we're all fucked up.

Two weekends from now is the Jewish High Holiday is Yom HaKippurim, the Day of Atonement, when Jews around the world seek forgiveness from their God after which their fate will be prescribed by the Holy One and in accordance with rites passed on throughout time worshippers off the following poem.

"A great shofar will be blown, and a small still voice will be heard. The angels will make haste, and be seized with fear and trembling, and will say: "Behold, the day of judgment!"... On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on the Yom Kippur fast it is sealed, how many will pass and how many will be created, who will live and who will die, who in his time and who not in his time... But repentance, prayer, and charity remove the evil of the decree... For You do not desire a person's death, but rather that he repent and live. Until the day of his death You wait for him; if he repents, You accept him immediately."

That horrible Day of Judgment is feared to be coming soon with the Israelis spreading war throughout the Levant in a merciless revenge for last year's October 7 Attack on the Negev settlements. Gaza destroyed, the West bank attacked, leaders of the resistance huunted to ground, Missiles and artillery attacks on Lebanon. No one is spared the the wrath of the destroying IDF. The old, the young, children, women, everyone is a target. The fundamentalists of America are on their knees this Sunday, praying that Yawweh will bring Armageddon and Christ will come again. Oh, what joy, the world end. At least all the Christians will be gone.

And if not I ain't atoning for anything.

Atheists have no venging Gods.

The Masaai warrior also said that at 19 he went out into the savannah armed with a spear and slew a lion.

"A single throw at 50 yards. Killed him instantly."

John had the lion skin at home. He showed it to me. It had been on living flesh only five years earlier. Israel has struck Yemen broadening the war. The Zionists are massing tanks on Lebanon's border. They have gone mad and the Chosen People are hellbent on war. Madness. Sheer madness.