Sport 23: Spring 1999
Zorba the Palestinian
Zorba the Palestinian
Has 600 pancakes to prepare in one
small pan for a bar mitzvah.
An organ concerto comes out of the
radio, fills the empty kibbutz kitchen.
He leans back, smoke in the corner
of his smile, eyes closed in rapture.
He lifts the pan and tips
out the first overtime paying pancake.
Five hundred and ninety nine to go.
One cake at a time, sweet Allah!