compromises

my father has given up  t.s. eliot, wagner, and BMWs  because they are anti-semitic.

(not that he could afford a BMW, but it makes him feel good to yell SHAME ON YOU out the window at their drivers)

but i think the ring cycle is kind of a cool idea. and what if t.s. eliot had loved jewish people, and because he loved jewish people or maybe because he was secretly jewish himself he for some reason never thought about mermaids or peaches and never wrote the love song of j. alfred and i never read it in my first year english class where the prof told me i looked like the mona lisa and i got all teary every time he said "i do not think that they will sing for me"? this is what i think about when my dad says t.s. eliot hated jewish people.

come on. who doesn't want to measure out their life in coffee spoons?