Moving Lights
Meir Wieseltier
1973
At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should with Deli Chicken Goods
In a small café
on Dizengoff between Nordau Boulevard
and the Northern Police station
(topped by a seven-branched menora and a…
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