A young woman
forced to walk to work
after a driver
kicked her off the bus.
Her shirt was too revealing,
showing midriff.
Meanwhile, the prime minster
is spotted shirtless again.
In public.
Admired, midriff and all.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)