A Minchah Offering

Someone googled minchah offering and landed on this poem. I'd forgotten that I had written it.

It's the middle of the work day

A time ill-suited for prayer

Kind of like a coffee break

Mid performance of a bypass

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Early morning, late night

We make time and pray

In the vein of exercise or

other early and late musts

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But the Minchah Amidah's

Against the grain interruption

Standing still in the afternoon

Let's admit how awkward it is

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I'm in the middle of a life-span

(Almost comically, so called)

An unpopular time to pause

Pen poems, hum new tunes

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In my youth, in my old age

It was, will be O.K. to play

Like my not driving a car

my lacking a power position

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In what's called mid-life

Running is all the rage

Yet I'm thrilled to sit and

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