Georgetown Women Make Me Feel Like Grasshoppers

*dedicated to all the women in Georgetown, Washington DC!!!

Uhnnnn, double up uhnnnn uhnnnn!

So yall know I go to a church in Georgetown right? Like, like, right across from the Georgetown University joint! Yeah that's the one! The Holy Trinity church joint! I was walking through dere the other night admiring all the aesthetically pleasing sights! So like, like, I be walking around town and such, and I be going past all the hotspots: like the Tombs, The Shops at Georgetown Park, Rhino Bar, Sweet Green frozen yogurt joint, etc, and I be like, I be like seeing these totally banging babes yo! I mean these are no ordinary girls, yo! These are sophisticated, well to do, cultured, classy women! I be looking at them like WOOOOAHHH-man! (get it? woah-man is a pun for wo-man) you is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone, shawty! Im like HOLY MOLY – GOOD GOD YOU MADE A GOOD THING WHEN YOU MADE THESE WOMEN! Then my hearts starts beating all fast like, you know, ya know? Well hey look, check this check this! I wrote a poem for all my Georgetown hotties! Come to Holy Trinity and we can chat about the spiritual possibilities of you becoming my wife! In this church! HEY, YOU! GET INTO MY CAR! So we can have a staring contest! U GEORGETOWN BABE YOU! SECOND TO NONE – GEORGETOWN BABES ARE DA BEST!

HOLLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN I GET UR NUMBA, HUH? CAN I HAVE IT? CAN I HAVE IT? CAN I HAAAVEEE IT?


I want Mocha Soy Lattes
sophisticated
high heels and lipstick chosen based on sweater hues
designer purses, stretch jeans, mini skirts with boots
leather jackets, pea coats replete with matching hat
luxurious earrings, fluorescent ear muffs
nail polish in plenteous supply
European fashion, flowing hair
Blonde, brown, black
in the brisk winter afternoon wind
cuisine for lunch, not a brown bag
your hobby – shopping
and looking beautiful, credit cards with limits of 20k
a 2011 Mercedes Benz just in time for New Year
eating frozen yogurt spattered with fruit blends
wearing make-up
eyeliner accentuating that gleam in your eye




----------------------/I Am A Grasshopper In Georgetown (Canaan)



Georgetown, Washington DC is in the Wilderness of Zin
(the malaise of the state of perpetual politics)
as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
(along the Potomac River)
Its south border leads to Hebron (the first covenant of Abraham);
kinda like Rock Creek Park almost, and Ahiman, Sheshai,
and Talmai, land of a giants, (land of the Washington Nationals)
but its university is in the Valley of Eshcol,
full of luscious fruits, ivy league students, erudite and polished.
its campus and surrounding metropolis –
like a hewn down branch with a cluster of grapes;
-carried on a pole of my incredulity-
(is this real?)
women as sweet as pomegranates and figs
and I am Shammua son of Zakkur;
Shaphat son of Hori, from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph
weak and trembling
I am not able to go up against these people,
for they are stronger than me
more cultured, better studied
better dressed
my adequacy diminutive juxtaposed against such captivation
I am sartorially challenged, paltry and sparse
when everyone else is surfeit, profit and surplus
my dagger of confidence, broad sword of optimism
and bow and quiver full of arrows of presumed joy
and conquest
so brittle, whithers in the sight of such great opulence
I am like a grasshopper in my own sight, bedazzled by
girls who crush hearts for sport and trade attention from their men
like commodity
and so I am in their sight
just a little band of men, deemed as insects in comparison
to their grandiose dreams and bounteous potential
exuberant hair
(jobs in the White House, or law firms in New York city)
observant to a fault and unworthy to step forth in the presence of
exquisite ethos
Georgetown is a land that devours its inhabitants,
and all the people whom I see in it are men of great stature
(basketball players, lacrosse teams, frat boys)
I dare not try to conquer this land
giving a fair report of it to my countrymen
nor ask one of its phenomenal girls on a date
lest I die




------------Numbers 13
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi; from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua. Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan." Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

Never Forgetting You - EVER

* dedicated to ****, this t-OH-OH-OH-tally hot girl at my old highschool: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL IN GREENBELT MARYLAND - GO RAIDERS! GO! I dont have the guts to tell her this in person, so I gotta be a digital gangsta, a studio internet thug and write a BLOG POST ABOUT HER. HEY LOOK YALL - CAN I PLEASE GET MY HEBREWS ON???? i mean shoot, Im almost 30 - CANT A GROWN MAN DO WHAT HE WANT TO DO?????? GUESS WHO? cuz I'll never tell....ooo nah nah WHATS HER NAME...OOO NAH NAH WHATS HER NAME???!!! :)



---------/Never Forgetting You


When we first met in highschool
knowing you was like hazy law written on stone tablets
muddled by the sight of hideous untoward Egyptian task masters
of superficiality and shallowness;
the sound of whips cracking against my calves
suffocating heat from all my toxic relationships
with girlfriends who left me for dead
under the Pharaoh of the wayward desires of chasing men
(with violence urging me to imitate their walk lest I be deserted)
who were mean spirited and gruff
and would treat them much worse than I ever could have
I walked on begrudging desert sands of resentment
for forty years it seemed (it was really just ten)
indifferent to you, or the Mount Moriah of your attractiveness and spunk
I never noticed you because I made a Golden Calf
of falling for the wrong type
divine guidance lead me by the hand out of my captivity to you
but I was too obtuse to render my obedience
to the covenant of the potential chemistry
between us
But now, I have obtained a more excellent awareness of you
Spiritually
and unlike the previous covenant
my newfound devotion, my ministry of love for you is established
on better promises,
not on fleeting rock slabs of fickle emotion prone to decay
but lasting commitment and intensity for your kiss all over my face
for now, the contours of your face are written all over my mind
indelibly
the sexy sound of your voice and your sexy smile
(so well traveled, so toned, so exotic!)
etched liberally on my heart forever
and indubitably, no one will utter henceforth "who does Tony want?" anymore:
from the least to the greatest all of Eleanor Roosevelt students
will know the love I have for you, baby
my past sins, my past ignorance, my past lack of awe
please remember them no more
and esteem them as obsolete
the days of me looking at your Facebook page and not drooling
are growing old, ready to vanish away


(if I text you, dont deny me a dinner date babes! Aww heck who am I kidding? I may never tell you any of this in person because Im too CHICKEN!!!! But oh well, thats the beauty of getting my Taylor Swift on - I can write about love and FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT!)



----------------------------------/Hebrews 8:6-13
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." In that He says, "A new covenant, " He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Lucid - From Now On

------/Lucid;The Thoughts Of The Boy Samuel Upon Hearing God's Voice


Its hard to distinguish poverty from the justified renderings
of jurisprudence
for a hard life of crime, treachery
or whether doleful expressions are just feigned attempts at
eliciting sympathy from people who are susceptible
to falling prey to lies
from inferior fellow citizens used as motivation for avoiding
sloth
or rather manifestations of our former selves foreboding
portending the manifest destiny
of evil in our lives forever
or whether it's a tactile philosophy; just a glimpse of a minor setback
to a lasting and rewarding end -
trials for prosperity
escape from worldly living and its attendant pull
blinding the eye to virtue and simplicity and the nobility
of the spiritual life
the same way the constant paranoia of a surprise attack
makes the high priest alert and especially responsible for his duty
offering sacrifices for the wicked;
hoping atonement will clear the collective national conscience
fostering civic pride and embrace of responsibility for laws of the land
thus averting the divine wrath
and reprisal for sacrilege untoward
but contrarily might signal a deeper yearning in the soul
to press onward and not be dismayed;
that the land couldnt be more obedient or more holy
for fear often rages loudest when peace draws nearest
when silence chases out all sound;
just to prepare to brace for the passing storm
(and conduct worship as usual)
....and I saw an old lady once
with a pleasant demeanor, and a persistent smile
when I was in her presence
but petulantly threw stones when I walked away
and I see thieves who hold out their hands to greet you
in the market, missing teeth a gleam in their eyes
only to surreptitiously take the loaf of bread on your person
when you oblige
then dash away
and clouds don't always bring rain
and sunshine doesn't always hearld warmth
and sometimes cocks crow at the moon, not the sun
so you develop an assiduous hatred for uncertainty and indecision
you want to hear that the senseless old order is passing away
with its confusion, and that the day will soon come when a word is a word
without any mystique
even if you hear the most ominous of speeches
you just for once want to hear Truth
even if it means lying on cold floors in tabernacles
the rest of your life
unable to sleep over an old man's snoring


-----------------/1 Samuel 3
Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation. And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was lying down in his place, and when his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he could not see, and before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle of the LORD where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down, that the LORD called Samuel. And he answered, "Here I am!" So he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me.” And he said, "I did not call; lie down again." And he went and lay down. Then the LORD called yet again, "Samuel!"
So Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me.” He answered, "I did not call, my son; lie down again." (Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.) And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you did call me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD had called the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. Now the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered, "Speak, for Your servant hears.” Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them. And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever." So Samuel lay down until morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision. Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" He answered, “Here I am.” And he said, “What is the word that the LORD spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that He said to you." Then Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD. Let Him do what seems good to Him." So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD. Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

Raven Symone, Rephidim Is Ours Forever

* dedicated to Raven Symone – wit yo fine self!


----------/Raven Symone, Rephidim Is Ours Forever, I Promise With Hands Held High


My heart, my undying love for you is Israel
defended by Joshua, my self esteem
with the sword of intrepid affection
and I am Moses, its prefect, and most affected by it
most worried that an ill fate will befall it as I wait for its ultimate
fulfillment of promise and consummation in your arms, Raven

And Amalek is my worst fear, approaching loneliness
from your defection (to another man who cant love you like
I know I can love you, baby) fortified with serrated blades
(of dejection, of jealousy, of acrimonious squalls with all my friends
for no other reason than my overbearing prolonged malcontent
replete with sobs that punctuate your absence)
and fine tipped arrows (of insecurity) stained
with dried blood from other conquests -from other girls who dismissively
rolled their eyes or ignored me-
which left me heartbroken, disconsolate. And the brigade is
charging toward Rephidim to boot, the place in my life where
I finally found contentment knowing I fell for a good woman
a noble woman with a beautiful smile (and lips for kissing)
and a great sense of humor....[THAT'S SO RAVEN]
but in my fragility and vulnerability and fear of failure
I cant bear to watch anymore catastrophe….
scurrying wide-eyed to the top of the hill
of romantic hope
of belief that a man so devoted to a woman
shall never, can never be disappointed

The only weapon in my arsenal is an obstinate disposition
that wryly smiles in the face of insurmountable odds
which I hold in my hand as the rod of my God
who smiles on lovers in distress
high when I am encouraged
and Joshua wards off my fears and prevails upon
those nightmares of you spurning me
and against my side when I am overwhelmed by doubt
and Joshua retreats and you are one step closer to walking away
but I swear I love you so much that my devotion to you is Aaron
and my desire for you is Hur
tirelessly, passionately
holding my hands up in victory through those times I am fatigued
losing patience, and losing faith
in the direst moments they place a rock of trust underneath me
that assures me you will love me as I have always loved you
holding my hands as steady as Joshua's battle stratagems
until the sun sets on all those pernicious forces that try to set us apart
strewn across the desert plain powerless to hurt anymore
and the miasma I feel when I cant hold your hands next to mine
vanishes; as I close my eyes and promise you:
no one who opposes us
will leave Rephidim alive

(struck down by the edge of the sword of our caresses)


(I LOVE YOU RAVEN SYMONE BABY..... YOU SO SEXY, YOU SO SWEET, YOU MY BOO!!! OH BABY COME AND LOVE ME- LEAVE A COMMENT ON MY BLOG AND DATE ME!!!)





-------Exodus 17:8-13
Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand." So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Caesarea Philippi (Danielle)

*dedicated to Danielle, the girl who got away from me my freshman year. Well er, actually she kinda just politely distanced herself from me upon receiving flowers I sent her shortly after we met. D'oh!!! I guess Im just not good at communicating with the women! Oh well, here’s what I really meant to say instead of sending flowers to her....

[You see, I still reflect on the all the hypothetical outcomes I could have had with her instead of this present one, you know? To this day I feel she would have been the best match for me if our familiarity with each other were to progress and unfurl conventionally....instead of frenetically due to my surging emotions and heartbeats when I saw her..... oh well, let me stop sulking *sigh*!!!!]

(Matthew 16:13-16)
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

-------------------- Caesarea Philippi – To Danielle


You see,
life is walking and ministering
earnestly trying to sway the foolhardy from
believing in casual fleeting encounters
that have no lasting value
or meaning, ones soon forgotten as the blazing trail
of the sun heralds the coming of the starry hosts and
its sparkling white sovereign – the moon
with no way to provide a bridge to continuity of the
initial spark of emotion felt
(when I looked into your eyes for the first time,
Danielle)
whether blind or mute to the possibilities of genuine relationship,
hunchbacked or profusely
hemorrhaging from a wound that wont scab (from emotional
tumult caused by other guys) or through tragedy or adversity
in your past;
inhabited by a demon who ransacks your will to want to
press onward - in trusting -
scorching fire or frigid water
discouraging and scorning the prospect of even taking a risk
to try and get to know me, or even maybe just plain fear
of the Sadducees and Pharisees of conventional norms
(ardently pursuing my premature demise)
that forbid you to want a black man
more or less fall in love with one
and so Ive come close to coasts of moribund waters
seeking answers, exasperated after trying to heal maladies
that I am considered alien, and mysterious
imploring response
to the general populace, but more specifically to
a disciple who has seen me at school
smiled and spoken to me on numerous occasions
(albeit brief ones on the way to class)
who did you think I was? Who did people tell you
that I am?
to precipitate your distance, the separation that defined
the waning of our friendship, after I sent you flowers
ultimately culminating in your departure
for another school, and thence into marriage
(with a great guy Im sure) in which I wasn't a party
even though you didn’t know that's what I wanted;
so badly
I wanted to save you from that encompassing
superficiality of meeting someone and not really knowing them
content walking away from good things
of seeking romance but not knowing how to ask for it
or from whom....
I just wanted to redeem you from the fallen state of grace
of being by yourself without a man who appreciated you
(like in Eden).....
I just wanted to be your savior (of sorts)
your new Adam
....Isnt that who you took me to be?



(then why did you run away, why did you run away?)





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And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.