It seems innocuous.

A little flat bread

the goyim mistake

for a cracker.

Yet never has a bread

caused so much

discomfort

to a nation. 

Certainly the Israelites

Did not eat this stuff for

eight days as we do now.

If they had, there is no

way they could have

chosen to make the desert crossing.

I know Jews and their bowels.

Eight days of matzah and the whole

motley crew would have stopped,

going no further without immediate access

to milk of magnesia and porta-johns.

Ahuva Batya writes on a diverse range of subjects from Jewish mysticism to addiction recovery.  Her book of Jewish-themed poetry, I Want a God with Arms, is expected in early 2013.