Some years we celebrate Chanukah before Chanukah
with rock and roll legend Felix Cavaliere
and his excellent wife Donna.
Young Rascals songs are in our DNA.
Our good friend Paulette Chef Paulette now
moved to Nashville where Felix and Donna live.
They all became friends in Nashville]
and when the Cavalieres came to New York
he performs often Donna wanted to talk
to a Jew about Chanukah she’d just found out
in a story too long for this poem
her grandmother was Jewish
and they didn’t want to just stand in front of Zabars
so Paulette asked if I’d have dinner with them.
Our first meal a Chanukah celebration
even though it wasn’t Chanukah and on Monday
next week though it isn’t Chanukah
we’ll all celebrate again.
Is there anyone you don’t know?
Maccabee Thanksgiving right after American Thanksgiving this year