today (after a delay)

today
in order to
explain to my
top students
why
we were skipping
a part of the book
I called it
"norishkeit"

then
I asked them
for the Hebrew
"What's norishkeit?'
yiddish
they said

what's the meaning?
I replied
blank

"hot air"
I hinted
like blowing
hot air into a balloon

that's norishkeit

one replied:
bullshit
close but not Hebrew

I asked them
to think of Kohelet

what's Kohelet about

they got their
tanachim, Bibles
serious fifteen year olds

wondering
about that
strange English teacher

hevel,
finally

nothing
a waste of time

shapes of faces
indicating
personality and careers

norishkeit
just norishkeit