Matzoh Balls

I am a little gnome who has been seized
by the claws of song, last I remember
I was busy eating matzoh ball soup 
in a Cleveland Heights delicatessen

I was blessedly just ordinary,
not thinking of Egypt or exodus,
then song started to well up from my lungs
and came out my mouth, made me someone else

let me tell you that matzoh balls are not
the same p…