A Passover Poem (with thanks to Clement Clarke Moore) by Ruth Greenwald

‘Twas a few days before Passover

‘Twas a few days before Passover,

And all through the house,

A certain woman was cleaning, and so was her spouse.

The mess they had made

The whole year before

Had to be sorted, tidied, tossed-out, and stored.

The kids were coming, the friends were, too,

And the couple was terrified,

Over how much to do.

So they both knuckled down

Under all of the stress,

And started to work on their own messy mess.

“Do we really need this,

Do we really need that?

Oh dear, it’s a good thing we don’t have a cat.”

And this, my dear friends,

Is what we must do,

In order not to annoy all the kids and the crew.

Ruth Greenwald

And that is the story of my life for the next few days!