Yet we shall find cause in culture we are raised in

To turn in and break out; silkworm and moth,

One creature, one cloth.

Tradition and the Jewish Talent is reprinted from the ebook "Glued To The Sky" (Burlington, VT: http://pulpbits.com , 2003) and first appeared in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Purdue University) v.8, n.4, Summer 1990.

In crime of century Jack failed to consider every contingency like an act of self-defense by my pals in Miami, The Company, mob. In every change of policy there's an element of perfidy and a fine line between courage and stupidity. <>"An Element of Perfidy": Late November 1963. The speaker is former vice-president and failed presidential candidate Richard Nixon, who as vice-president served as CIA White House action officer for proposed invasion of Cuba. The information on which this poem is based is found in several of secondary sources cited in endnotes of ebook "JFK: Lines of Fire".

"An Element of Perfidy" is reprinted from the ebook "JFK: Lines of Fire" (Burlington, VT: http://PulpBits , 2003) and first appeared in Prairie Winds (Mitchell, SD) n. 50, Spring 1996.