Another Clara Israel fact
well documented in notebooks
she kept about life
Clara Israel has a secret lover
older man (can you be older
than 92 or 93?
the answer is actually less)
named Josh Rabinowitz
turning 100 in August.
He lived in Rego Park
but after twenty years
his wife had dementia
and finally died
they’d decided he would
actually move in with her
into her one bedroom
apartment. Many times
they’d shared her bed before
and they’d figured out ways
given their various age related
body part limitations
for love making and sleep.
Josh Rabinowitz was a clever man.
He offered to help with Dead Ted.
Why not she said.
Everyone needs a partner.
My mother got in trouble in Rego Park. Her grouchy uncle had a deli on Woodhaven Boulevard. He never smiled, so she threw peas in his open milk cans.