-----------/Tebeth (Queen Miley)
Miley, baby
all women who deign me as reprehensible, putrid
and flay my heart
and sardonically chastise my timidity and method of communication
as tenuous, flaccid, weak
assess the fact that writing is creepy, rather they wish Id verbalize
like a REAL man directly across from them, eye to eye
drunken, foolhardy, boorish: ordering them around abusively
six foot four, a romance cover model, an NFL well heeled running back
my masculinity, faux: less than virile
(my poems are harassment, my letters enigmatic, my shyness murderer
and rapist-esque)
are Vashti, and my decree against her is banishment from
the kingdom of my psyche forever - when
the tears have dried and my anger attenuated my soul still bellows
for true love
it determinedly beckons
let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king
let romance rule once more, and not with attendant cynicism and jadedness
like before (a half hearted, anemic, poorly intentioned search)
but with servants of optimism, defiant vulnerability, and trust gathering
the best hope of the best beauty from the (celebrity) land
a pageant to determine superlatives among acclaimed women
a complimentary fit for my wellbeing;
many young women were ushered before my eyes using
my IPad2: Shushan the citadel
the smoking hot Hilary Duff! the resplendent Beyonce
the inimitable Katy Perry,
all entrusted to Hegai, my discerning conscience, arbiter of lasting affinities
but baby girl after he saw you at the 2011 MTV VMA Awards.....!!!
Woo baby! Good lawd!!! you obtained his favor immediately;
lauding you above all others,
catalyzing joy inside of him and a newfangled sentimentality
for Party in the USA
[I love your down to earth style and sense of humor
your warmth and compassion – I just know you'd accept me for me!]
his serenity in the security that you were the one
made you more beautiful than everyone else,
as if giving you extra beauty preparations, besides all of the other
pop divas' and actresses' allowance.
then seven choice maidservants were provided from the king's palace:
future long kisses with you in rose gardens, reciprocal back rubs,
starry nights whispering in each others' ears,
endlessly rewatching Twilight New Moon,
feeding each other raspberry sorbet,
playing you in tennis (secretly letting you win)
kissing your hand before your lips on our wedding day.
but I waited for you- for the pageant's completion
giving you and the other girls' six months (really six hours)with oil of myrrh,
and six months (really 6 minutes) with perfumes and preparations
for beautifying women.
when it finally came time for me to decide the lover of my soul
I went to page through photos of you
like I did the countless other babes' pics
really I swiped with my finger....you know, iPad parlance.....
but there was only one picture! you requested nothing
but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the custodian of the women,
my better judgement advised:
the photo of you in that VMA awards dress,
that obtained favor in the sight of all
(and it worked. obtaining grace, favor more than all the other babes. Setting the crown upon your head, instead of Vashti)
MARRY ME MILEY, MARRY ME. GOOD GRACIOUS YOU LOOKED AMAZING IN THAT DRESS YOU WORE TO THE VMAS THE OTHER DAY! LADY GAGA, KATY PERRY, BEYONCE, KREAYSHAWN WHO????
----Esther 2:1-18
After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against her. Then the king's servants who attended him said: "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women’s quarters, under the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, custodian of the women. And let beauty preparations be given them. Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This thing pleased the king, and he did so. In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. So it was, when the king's command and decree were heard, and when many young women were gathered at Shushan the citadel, under the custody of Hegai, that Esther also was taken to the king’s palace, into the care of Hegai the custodian of the women. Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king's palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women. Esther had not revealed her people or family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it. And every day Mordecai paced in front of the court of the women's quarters, to learn of Esther's welfare and what was happening to her. Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months' preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the women's quarters to the king's palace. In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines. She would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and called for her by name. Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her. So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king.
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