JAM ALA KHUBZ

JAM ALA KHUBZ

a silly poem about (the diversity of) jams

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There are all kinds of jams:

Golden State Freeway traffic jams and homemade handpacked

raspberry jams.

Diwali in Westwood jams and Qawwali along the Bay jams

Study for your midterm exam jams

And all night after-finals jams.

Organic poetry jams and locally-grown blueberry jams.

Philharmonic jams and Asian Film Festival jams

My computer is jammed and I can't

Get on the Internet please-help-me jams.

Nourouz jams and non-fat sugar-free low-calorie jams;

Caracas jams and harmonium jams;

How to order couscous in Morocco jams

And when to serve Tahini as an hors d'oeuvres jams;

But the best kind of jams

Are the pre

Pared peanut butter & j jams

That come in the jar of

Sandwich spread

Striped like the flag of our diversity

You can serve on room temperature toast

Or freeze, topped with a banana, which

Melts like ice cream in the cavity of your

Mouth

That jam

Is better than the soul food of the South.

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"Make food. Make music. Make like a crazy lover. But never ever make war."

Zahra bint al-Qalam

5/16/08