Alexandra Daddario Paying Tony Conti's Temple Tax #tonyandalexandra

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+------Alexandra Daddario Paying Tony Conti's Temple Tax

Alex, singleness is 12 disciples
banded together, frayed-robes
-ragged-sandals-clad; scruffy
beards the degenerative effect
of loneliness. My heart, Peter
haggling with cruel girls’ dating
refusals like two-drachma
coin collectors barring entry
into Love’s Temple.
Wolves snarling before a carcass
freshly hunted. But your smile:
the currency of angels,
your eyes as turquoise as Love’s
Savior's, as the adjoining lake –
the Alcyonian lake – your voice
like soft winds and ripples
therein. If you took me to
McDonald’s it’d be a caught fish;
Our kiss a four drachma coin of your
altruism in its mouth to pay the tax. 

------Matthew 17:24-27
After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”