Here: For Volodymyr Zelensky

A Jewish comedian walks into

a country

Not just any country

the one that spat out my grandparents

where cousins lie in mass graves

But there’s the funnyman, the Jew

with stubbled jaw and haunted eyes

the country’s hero

A tiny olive-garbed David, he lofts

the blue and yellow flag

on a magazine cover

In a video that awes

the world, he says

I’m here

Here, where my ancestors

lie beneath Odessa, Kyiv, and

villages I can’t find on Google maps

where the earth still whispers

the dark jokes they told to endure

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