Ramadan Red White and Blue

By Mohja Kahf

Ramadan in the West
‘ll put hair on your chest
No sleeping in, fool
Boss here won’t invest
in your Ramadan slouch

It’s not your limp-wrist
Saudi-soft Ramadan
It’s Ramadan, Shaker school
It’s Medina-meets-Sparta
Get your Abu Dharr on

No clatch of women kin
cooking fancy-frill food
No shopping till dawn
No diners closed days
so temptation’s removed

Your dumbed-down Muslimland
shortcuts don’t play
This is Ramadan, USA—
hardcore and hungry,
the old Prophet way!