First They Blame

The Jews should stand with Eric Adams. He’s
our inverse Niemöller: he does the taking
and says a fucking lot, each morning waking
beneath a sort of sword of Damocles
composed of assets for the swarming feds to seize,
textual evidence of his own making,
and barstool lies he’s spent his life mistaking
for his life: B’nai Yisrael should see in these
itself, once-bullied bullies coplike in the breach,
self-believed God-chosen singled out,
un-mitzvahing out of necessity—
our waiting haters set their eyes on speech
and free expression, rizz and online clout:
like freedom, we’re not guaranteed, nor free.