The Bread of Affliction
Some people start their seder saying “Ha”,
ha lahma anya, this is the bread of the affliction
our ancestors consumed in Egypt, a faith-inspired fiction
that’s comparable to identifying God as Allah.
Allah is not what Jews call God, although the name may seem
to be as close as bread served at the seder which they ‘ve long depicted
Aramaically to bread they ate in Egypt when afflicted,
though, challenging the “ha,”” many precede it with a “k,”kelayma anya, likening the phoneme.
Mere likening of the past bread of affliction
to the bread served at the seder
in this verse that I’ve composed…
and not identifying them in any seder moment
that’s ahah,
fails to justify the bread of affliction
with which followers of Allah
the followers of the Jewish God
have opposed,
barbarically with antisemitic
brouhaha.