This Hanukkah
it would only be right
if you took the time
to "act like you"
didn't "forget about"
the Dr. Dreidel
(to quote a verse)
featuring the visage
of actor and rapper
Andre Young
who goes by
the stage name Dr. Dre.
Conceptual artist Heather Rothstein
used the service You3DIt.com
to request the four-sided top
with the usual Hebrew characters
be replaced with
his appropriate expressions.
Gimmel meaning "take all"
is Dre giving
a thumbs-up.
Hay or "take half"
is Dre looking somewhat smug.
Nun or "take nothing"
has him looking bored and bemused
and Shin or "put one in"
makes the good doctor
put a gun to his head
and makes one think
he should see
a licensed doctor immediately
given the generally low cost
of the chocolate coins
which are commonly used
to "gamble".
Unfortunately the product
is not for sale
but it should nonetheless
improve the holiday's
lucky-triumph-through-scarcity mythology
and more importantly
its bling quotient
compared with Christmas.
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
