Girl Without Comb
by Miriam Ullinover
The note before Girl Without Comb
“Sitting where the night has its nest
are my songs like boarders oif kest”*
The teeth of the comb are broken
A comb is necessary – more necessary is a bagel
So where, who will comb my hair
the gray empty lonely space will comb my braid…
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*Oif Kest: was the condition of being supported
gratis in someones home (often by a father in-law)
because you were studying Torah
The second verse of Meydl on Kam
is mostly unreadable and the last two lines
are missing.