Ali Liebegott

yesterday I was at the Wailing Wall pretending to be a man, pretending to be a Jew it was research for my job still I tried to feel God, touched the Wall said a prayer for my sick mother the women go to one side the men to the other the rest of us float and bobble like space trash around the corner is the empty co-ed wall no one prays before the genderless stones they smell the concession the gay rabbi said Jerusalem has been conquered forty-four times I walk with the men, stolen yarmulke in my hand past the dancing bar mitzvah boys on the other side of the fence their mothers throw hard candies at them