The exile

He had questions about everything,
Answers to everyone.
He would tell an elder: you are a Cossack of God.
Why does the Infinite need help?
In the evenings, among women of lost souls
He would speak about the sins of the saints: David, Solomon, Bathsheba-
He knew everyone needed a minute justification.
When they expelled him from town
They said: the four death punishments were abolished.
All that remains are the daily little deaths of exile.

Background: the four death punishments that were abolished: stoning, strangling, burning and beheading. Based on a story of I.B. Singer. The brother speaks.