And the drinking went according to the law: There is no such thing as restraint!—Esther 1:8
Temperance overturned—
Why care ¿…
Just party all the time—
so drunk you forget what you did to your wife
And the queen, wrinkled and bent, still possesses
the signet ring that gives unchecked power over 127 provinces
the names of whose languages she does not even know
The queen and her cousin
cannot be deposed
And once signed with the signet ring, no edict can be revoked
↫ ↬
Might as well toss the dice to choose
the date for a genocide
Open the archive in the middle of the night
Read any page, it does not matter
Then mount the king’s horse to vaunt the people who don’t jibe anywhere
who cast up on a new shore all the time
Explanatory gloss: Two words hold a key to Purim
Andy Oram
March 7, 2023