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Passed Over, To Jews and Those Who Want To Be:Bitter Herb Passover Poem…by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Humor,Jewish Themes,Poetry & Prose — Bob at 7:53 am on Tuesday, April 19, 2011

 

To Jews and Those Who Want To Be—for just one day:

Happy Gefilte Fish
Happy Afikoman (however you spell that)
Happy Briskett
Happy Parsely…Sage, Rosemary…oops!
Happy Lamb Shank
Happy Strange Wine
Happy Matzoh
Happy Elijah…by now, really drunk

Happy Four Questions
May we be asking them
For Another
Three Thousand Years

Happy Escaping from those Crazy Egyptians

Happy Remember the Ragged Immigrants
Who brought Passover With Them
And Little Else

Hitler’s Dead!
We’re Still Here!
Hah!!!

Happy Passover
Gut Yontiff
Hag Sa-mey-ach

To
Everyone
Who Remembers

 

Son of Anne & Irv
Brother of Bonnie

Grandson of Rose & Jacob; Celia & Nathan                                                                                               

Great-Grandson of Osser & Etta Kasha; Moshe & Fannie                                                                    

Great-Great-Grandson of Yeshia

All of them gone

I remain

I write the poems

 

Copyright–April 18, 2011

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6 Comments »

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Comment by Ami

April 19, 2011 @ 11:25 am

Chag Pessach is also Chag haAviv, the festival of SPRING.

Where is Spring ? @!#?!%!?&?!

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Comment by Lori Ann

April 20, 2011 @ 5:15 am

So how was your Passover dinner? I hope we did not make you late. Howas the lamb shank ans strange wine?
Interesting poem made me kind of sad and happy at same time.
We will be back ….on Thursday to add a few more elements while we wait for the real art to be produced!…have a nice day Bob.
LA

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Comment by Bob

April 20, 2011 @ 9:25 am

Lori Ann,
No one actually eats the lamb shank. It’s a symbol.

But it was my middle daughter Rachel’s first Seder and it was wondeful. Fabulous briskett!!

There was a moment where my older daughter Lisa, 36, was dancing with Rachel,30, my youngest daughter Sarah,14,Sarah’s friend Angelina,14, Lisa’s daughter Natalia,2, and a friend of Rachel’s, Noa,23, who is from Israel and all the while Lisa is holding her second child and my first grandson, Elijah,3 months.

They were dancing to lady Gaga, I think.
Multi-cultural. And so wonderful to see.

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Comment by Don Larson

April 20, 2011 @ 11:29 am

A very fitting poem, Bob.

In high school during my Junior year, I was the only Gentile at the lunch table. That was noted and my friends made me a honorary Jew to resolve the issue. It was a proud moment for me.

I wish you and yours a Happy Passover!

Don

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Comment by Bob

April 20, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

I am honored to have you as a friend just as you are. You do not have to be similar to me to be valuable to me, Don.

Therefore, Happy Easter!

Bob

PS..I have a “Passover Bunny” whom I call Rabbit (I like to keep things simple)who runs around my bed in the monrning, jumping over me, while I do stretching exercises to loosen up my frozen spine. Rabbit has become very tame and comes up to me to look in my face and lets me caress it while he snuggles against me. Rabbit has enormous black eyes, which are unreadable. Rabbit is an enigma.

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Comment by Adrienne

April 21, 2011 @ 7:38 pm

Bob…
Nice writing..Happy Pesach. Hopefully see you tomorrow night at Shul.
Adrienne

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