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Palm Sunday Well-Sanitized
There is social distancing
in Jerusalem
Mostly among Romans and
Greeks and Jews
Who don’t much like each
other anyway -
How is this day different
from all other days? 1
This year there is no parking-lot
procession
That’s good; the timing of
the hymn in front
Never matches the timing ‘way
in back
And the mail-order palms
are sanitized
What hosannas this season,
you may well ask:
Wave the virus and proclaim,
“Wear your mask!”
1 Cf. The Seder
(This is
only a bit of wry humor; good hygiene is always a matter of caritas in protecting
others as well as one’s self.)
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