The Haggadah (The Story)
Today bright as divinity
eastern clouds portend another fate
We purchase horseradish
to remind us that tears run bitter
We build a Hillel sandwich
a bit of choroset
the apples nuts wine
like mortar across the matza
a horseradish dab added
Laughing we cry
as hot meets sweet
The looting shooting flash
across TV screen
hours of a statue carnage
videologued for posterity
an American Marine buried
with full military honors
his casket cloaked by
a Mexican flag
The story retold
God with an outstretched
arm makes us free
Ryfkah 4/12/03
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