If You Could Say No
| November 14, 2023A Plea for Single People to Reclaim Their Agency
OMG! Mazel tov!
Today is the day!
Your friend got engaged
And will wed in L.A.!
Get a dress on, and makeup,
And your highest-heeled shoes.
You must go to the vort.
You do not get to choose.
“Single” means no good excuses, and so
To vort, Shabbos Kallah, and wedding you go.
You may think, “I have college! I’ve got stuff to do!
And I can’t buy plane tickets and pay my rent, too!
And emotionally I can’t do this. No way.”
But you gird up your loins, and you enter the fray.
You pay for the tickets
And dresses and shtick.
Can you call up the boss
And pretend to be sick?
It doesn’t feel fair,
But you’ve got to be there.
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