Stanley Siegelman was never at a loss for words — and they always rhymed. Over the past decade, Stanley, who died of cancer on April 11 at the age of 87, regaled Forward readers with his light verse, first as a contributor to this newspaper’s “Der Yiddish Vinkl” column, more recently with his online “Siegelmania”…
Toward the end, as he lay dying, pretty much all I wanted to do was make him laugh. I called him every week with a line or a joke or a story he might find funny. I plied him with levity. And laugh he often would. Even so, I suspected that as I tried to…
’Twill come, I know, as no surprise. (I speak, of course, of my demise.) The signs abound, for all to see: A curtailed life expectancy. My breath is short, my sighs are long, The heart beats sound (to me, all wrong.) Self-pity I will not embrace, But these are facts that one must face. My…
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