Not that rap is exactly poetry...

but I've had the Hip Hop Hoodios' version of "Hava Nagila" stuck in my head for a week now, damnit, and none of my Jewish poetry friends seem to know it, and they should:

I'm a Jew for thugs, a jew for hugs,
A Jew for lobster, a Jew for bugs;
A Jew for masturbation, five-week vacations,
A Jew for FDR, Salon, and The Nation.
Pass on Ronald Reagan--give me Donald Fagen!
(Ma Nishtana, Menachem Begin?)

And, of course, the chorus, which my daughter loves to holler at the most sublimely inappropriate moments:

I'm a Jew for Allah, a Jew for Jesus,
A Jew for milagros and telekenesis,
A Jew for you, a Jew for me,
A Jew for birds and a Jew for the bees...

Now if only my Hebrew were good enough to hear--but really hear--the wit and horror of "The Sticker Song," too!