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    Gentile and Jew Boys: One Hundred Poems for Shem
    Gentile and Jew Boys: One Hundred Poems for Shem
    Gentile and Jew Boys: One Hundred Poems for Shem
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    Gentile and Jew Boys: One Hundred Poems for Shem

    By D. L. Forbes

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    Gentile & Jew Boys:

    A collection of one hundred poems; funny, whimsical and intense, associated with the 'real-life' relationship between a gay English artist and an Israeli Talmudic scholar – a tie-in with the biographic-novel Yid un Goy Yingl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 22, 2018
    ISBN9781543946086
    Gentile and Jew Boys: One Hundred Poems for Shem

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      Gentile and Jew Boys - D. L. Forbes

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the author’s prior consent in any form of binding, cover, or device other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      All rights reserved

      © D. L. Forbes 2018

      Print ISBN: 978-1-54394-607-9

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-54394-608-6

      1. Bio-Poetry 2. Gay Jewish 3. Relationships 4. Sexuality.

      FOURBEESBOOKS

      London, Edinburgh & San Francisco

      Note:

      This selection of poems is a nonfictional companion to the novelised account of the 18 months Shem and I spent together in San Francisco in my book YID un GOY YINGL. For the most part these poems I wrote during the dregs of the last century and into fresh dregs of the new.

      Wherever he is

      In whatever state of

      War and peace

      Engaged –

      For my friend

      Shemaiah, Son of Noah

      And our time together

      Contents

      Aftermath

      Sad Shem

      No Fags in Jerusalem – 1976

      Lost Tribe of Israel

      Impaired Judgement – 1977

      Tel Aviv Jellyfish Song

      Aspects of Mental Illness

      Such Then My Love

      Try a New Outlook

      Take it Like a Man

      Infused With Love

      Oh Please! – Are There Jews in Israel?

      Jean–Paul Sartre Est Mort

      To My Grumpy Jew Boy

      Kosher Chicken–Part Angst

      San Francisco Diversity

      Get Happy

      Immortal We

      Hot Thighs in the Yielding Sand

      Cat Rules, Okay

      Lamb and Monster

      Sickness or Death

      Hang it all, Ezra Pound

      A Danger

      Lonely Walk

      CafE Exterminate You

      Yes, Marcel and I – I Cannot Lie

      In England

      Mr’s Cerebral and Intuitive

      Sweeping Sadness

      Harsh Words for My Faggy–Wag

      That is Why You Hate and Love Me

      Land Capture – Empire and Stick

      Cloud across the Sun

      Ten Billion Poems and You

      Nine–Tenths

      Small Rant While Waiting for Dinner

      Lost and Found

      Wrong Shemaiah

      Reason 101

      Until the Day You Die

      Shem Said: "Such words are ignorant and dangerous."

      First and Second Thoughts

      Who Does Not Suffer?

      diY un yoG

      Showy Shikse

      Vivid Lion

      Sleeping Bastard

      Man, a Flush down the Pan

      Childhood Prayer

      Dirty Cat – Tokhes oyfn tish!*

      What does Shem Want?

      Dance and be Happy

      Slut–Bags

      Filth

      Melding

      Screw the Misery

      Delicacy

      Quick Again Before You Die

      Oy Vey iz Mir!

      No, Not Our War

      Shopping in Jerusalem

      Wall and Mother

      Shem, Shem, Shem – I Love Jew You

      Gritty, Wet and Sharp

      The Dreidel Solution

      Woman and Wives and All Sorts

      Urban Homos in Search of the Hetero

      Di Kanape (the couch)

      Go Bang your Head against the Wall

      A Little Madness Goes a Long Way

      Yid and Goy Boy

      Good String Theory

      Shem’s Zionist Way

      Church of England Way

      That is enough – Stop It!

      You Say di Shmate and I Say my Jumper

      Alone Naturally

      A Wombat Might be Nice

      Meshuge (crazy)

      Foul–some Things

      Shem the Smart–arse

      Sexual Anarchy on the Bedroom Floor

      Dead Now

      The Attraction of Repulsion

      Get it Right

      Mental Sickness

      Bigtime Closet Suck

      S and M or a Nice Casserole

      Baser Dealings

      Might As Well Die

      Go to it

      Went Slightly Mad

      The Factual Fiction of You

      Voices Harsh and Soft

      Us in Love

      I Would Have Gone to Israel

      Getting Rid of You

      Quick, For My Mother She Doth Approach

      Lament

      1.

      Aftermath

      One

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