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Lot’s Wife: Modern Variations

I.B. Rad

Could it be
the story of Lot’s Wife
is an allegory
for being too backward looking,
its famous pillar of salt
denoting her interment
in a halite mound
formed from her sea of tears
over biblical Hiroshima’s
impending holocaust?
On an allied note,
does Lot’s wife further exemplify
an emigrant’s heartfelt plight
at upending her entire universe
for a surer if alien future,
craning to see what was lost
as well as what was gained?
Or candidly, was she simply
a doubting Thomas
who couldn’t take anyone at their word,
not even envoys of almighty Yahweh
(Who’d ever think,
as Master Of The Universe,
 He’d sink
 to taking down
 a little hick town
 like Sodom)?
Then again, is the term “she”
the key
to our biblical yarn?
Was Lot’s wife an intrepid protofeminist
refusing to subserviently follow
her husband’s lead
or take direction
from two angelic henchmen
of a patriarchal, tribal Godfather?

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