Maidelwhines
| May 20, 2025In a small house in Lakewood…something is not right
IN
a small house in Lakewood
That was littered with bikes
Lived six little kids
Of six different types
In six separate ways, they broke their toys
And made a mess
And lots of noise
They kvetched at the good
And kvetched at the bad
And sometimes they were very mad
They left the house
At eight o’ three
With six scraped knees
With cries
And pleas—
The smallest one was Chaim Tzvi.
He was not afraid of bugs —
He loved fire, guns, and slugs.
To the tiger in the zoo,
Chaim Tzvi just said, “Pooh-pooh!”
And nobody was so zealous
As to frighten Mommy Ganeles
In the middle of one night
Mommy Gan turned on her light
And said, “Something is not right!”
Chaim Tzvi sat in bed,
Cried and cried — his eyes were red.
And soon after Hatzalah came
One man whipped out his phone,
And he dialed: Three-Six-Oh-Oh —
“Ambulance,” he said, “to the hospital we go!”
Chaim Tzvi woke up two hours
Later, in a room with flowers.
Chaim Tzvi soon ate and spoke
And on his bed was a remote.
And a screen on the wall that was calling
Though Mommy Gan found it appalling.
One nice morning Mommy Gan said,
“It’s a fine day to visit Chaim Tzvi in bed.”
Stampeding with giddy face,
Caps and tzitzis out of place
In they walked and then said, “Wow!”
When they saw the toys and gadgets
And Chinese food from LeChow.
“Good-bye,” they said, “we’ll come again,”
And the Gan children left in the rain.
They went home and they broke their toys
made a mess
And lots of noise.
In the middle of the night
Mommy Gan turned on her light
And said, “Something is not right!”
And afraid of a disaster
Mommy Gan ran fast and faster
And she said, “Please kinderlach do—
Tell me what is bothering you?”
And all the Gan kids cried, “Boohoo,
We want to have a 24Six, too!”
“Shah, kinderlach!
Please back to your beds
And now go to sleep!”
Mommy Gan said.
And she turned out the light —
And closed the door —
And that’s all there is —
There isn’t any more.
“But, Ma! Just because he had surgery, why does he get one?
(Originally featured in Family First, Issue 944)
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