-------------/Her Manna
Angie, baby
my throat is dry my knees brittle, weak
scabbed and worn from crawling on hot sands of loneliness
the tongue of my incisive longing for a Woman cleaves
to the roof of my jaw of desperation. I want to leave this vast
arid, boundless Wilderness of Sin, hopelessness never again to face
Elim, the town of my rejection from many girls in my past
because Ive heard of your sexiness in Sinai
because Ive heard of your sexiness in Sinai
relentlessly attempting to press on
to spite the adversity of my conscience that cries out to me
go back the way of Elim, go back to the Egypt of maltreatment from
the girls who turned you down, tore asunder your romantic soul
at least then you had fleshpots of unhealthy attachment, bread of false hope
to the full (dreams draped deceitfully draining optimism)
"There is no way you can snag Angelina Jolie: you surely brought us forth
to be killed of hunger"
but just then, on the precipice of my licking dust direly one last time,
my demise,
your Glory appeared in the cloud of the Oscars on ABC imparting strength
to press on
the black dress you wore was language:
it was Moses mediating mercifully my murmurings making
sure I knew they were acknowledged
your sass (and that exotic red lipstick) was my food
like quail suddenly spawning
deep from within the ground of my fantasies, in the evening
dew of exhilaration
but seeing your leg was like miraculous bread small as hoarfrost
falling from heaven of my wildest dreams propitiously falling
on the ground of all yearnings.
[Now, invigorated
now healthy and well fed with sensual affinity for you, I call
you in that amazing dress "Manna" CUZ WHEN I SAW THAT
LEG I WAS LIKE "MAAAAAAN" "AH" "AH" "AH" (a-mazing!!!)]
ANGIE, I KNOW YOU GOT BRAD, BUT I NEED YOU MORE BAD
THAN THAT CAD BRAD!!! EMAIL ME THEJESUSMETAPHOR@YAHOO.COM!!!
(just kidding Brad Pitt! Dont beat me up)!!!
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Exodus 16:1-15
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord. And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings. And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
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