DER YIDDISH-VINKL February 13, 2004
“Viagra” and “Niagara” sound very much alike. But, we are poetically assured by our ever-clever contributor Stanley Siegelman that they are not the same. He does so in his uproarious rollicking rhymes.
Viagra Iz Nit Keyn Vaserfal
Viagra iz a voyle zakh
(A bisl shlingt men, nit kin sakh)
Es helft a man tsu zayn a man,
Farshteyst? Dos iz a guter plan.
Di vayber ogeyen aroys funem zin,
Zey kveln fun der meditsin.
Zey shrayen oys “S’iz gut! S’iz cool!”
Un “lomir geyn nokh amul.”
A man, er fun Viagra trakht,
Er denkt derfun bay tog un nakht:
“A far-ge-nign! Mit a moyd,
Ikh bin yetst Jung ‘n un-a-Freud!”
Er geyt shnel vi an oygnblik,
Montik, Mitvokh, Donershtik:
“A keynig bin ikh yetst, a Kaiser,
Gebensht zol zayn in gantsn Pfizer!”
Viagra Is Not a Waterfall
Viagra is a shooting star
Direction: perpendicular!
It helps a man to be a man
And even stretches his — lifespan!
The women find excitement too
In what the tiny pill can do.
“Encore!” they’re saying to the men,
“It’s time to satisfy the yen!”
A man who on Viagra dwells
Both night and day, he ups and yells,
“When with a damsel I’m employed,
I feel quite Jung and un-a-Freud!”
All primed to go, he gives a wink:
“No more do I require a shrink!
A King am I, a reigning Kaiser,
All thanks to that blue pill by Pfizer!”
A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.
If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
