Al and Me

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I have a lot
In common with Einstein,
If you leave out
The mathematics
The physics
The Nobel prize
The Chair at Princeton
Playing the violin
And being asked to serve
As the President of Israel.

Which is, I suppose,
Like saying
I have a lot
In common
With Betty Grable
If you leave out
Being a woman
And the legs.

What Al and I
Do have in common,
I have learned,
Is the shared conviction
That what we
Call God
Is not so much
Revealed in the Harmony
Of all that exists, but
Rather that God is
The Harmony
In all that exists.

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