Your Wedding; My Beast-Mark

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+--------Your Wedding; My Beast-Mark 

I kind of knew I sold my soul to sin-sulks
when we met, sparkling turquoise eyes
of The Dragon implacable to my flirting
(no hide no scales), smiles and words to
make me smolder. Dilapidated buildings,
charred trees, my cursed Antichrist
screaming at all other girls. Your body was
a strange beast rising out of seas of sexy,
my emotions bowing stunned before 7
curly brown heads, 10 horns with 10 breast
-crowns of ineffable beauty. Your charm,
sweet conversation a second beast with 2
lamb horns calling joy as fire from heaven.
You see, I erected your image in my heart;
Thoughts of you were 6-6-6 imprints on
the forehead, right hand. And though your
wedding uttered damning blasphemies
against prospects of us together, I cant
spurn this “mark” of us in Georgetown, DC.
I cant buy or sell happiness without it.

------Revelation Chapter 13
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The Two Brothers Of Tony Conti's Desire To Date Taylor Swift

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+--------The Two Brothers Of Tony Conti's Desire To Date Taylor Swift 

And Taylor, I know all the
insinuated ideal intentions,
innocent, Edenic, of those around
me: a non-celebrity woman: Abel, a
peaceful shepherd, kindly, common,
tending (tamed), to wooly tender
bleating flocks of romance’s mundane.
And I know you hate that, the fat
portion offerings of the firstborn of
flocks of monotony. You with Cain-
passion’s harvest rage in your eyes
born of soil of living your wheat grain
Rock Star’s Life with abandon,
heart ablaze with pure soul music.
If you took me to Starbucks, two
Earl Grey teas in a field. An invitation
for me to watch the fratricide of
dichotomy – my wants versus need,
things bland slain by joy. Our kiss like
staring into your blue eyes, you
whispering to me rhetorically “Am
I my brother’s keeper?” We would
run away to Nod, east of Eden,
fully in love, smirking, marked.

------Genesis 4:1-16
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.” Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.  So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

A Dirge For Dreamers #IamBenjamin

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+--------A Dirge For Dreamers; Benjamin's Eulogy At Joseph's Funeral 

As a child in our tent, I remember
his smiling at night sleeping
in that variegated coat, an angel
marching proudly in winged sandals-
his arms extended upwards, fingers
clasping, thirsting unconsciously
even then for a scepter. And SO much
has changed since then! We
languishing, descending into famine,
curse of brothers' betrayal’s barter-he
ascending from pit to prison to Egypt’s
prince, emblem of God’s provision for
his chosen. I love Joseph for his mercy.
For teaching to us all to hold fast to
dreams despite dire cost, because
if you do, in the end, they come true.
(The sun, moon and stars of the
impossible really do bow)

------Genesis 50:15-26
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept. His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said. But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them. Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father’s family. He lived a hundred and ten years and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees. Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.” So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Revenge For The Levite #TonyvsJohn #TaylorDateTony

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John Mayer, how dare you ruin Taylor Swift's Birthday dawg!

+--------Revenge For The Levite 

John Mayer (of Gibeah), I know your sin
I know your murderous
dismembering crass code of verbal
ethics, the slaughter of Taylor Swift’s
birthday spirit as an innocent Levite
concubine's limp arm stretched for
civility's door stoop. And my love for her
is Israel’s army One, raging against
your Benjamite ideals. Though you struck
her first with “lamest”cruelty, 700 left
-handed troops who can sling a stone
at a hair and not miss, 22,000 soldiers
of her enthusiasm felled, my zeal for your
fledgling career dying is the craftiest
counterattack. A mention of your pop
culture irrelevance as an ambush
at Baal Tamor: 25,000 soldiers of your
hip-guy delusions dying slowly: arrow-
staked livers, seeing the face of ghosts.
The remnant of your dignity like 600
cowering men fleeing to seek a wilderness
of anonymity as I put your raspy annoying
voice to swords of disdain. Your future
record sales: animals, people, gardens
in unsuspecting towns, set on revenge
-fire asleep. My black smoke rising.
All your smugness burning.


------Judges 20:8-48
All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots. We’ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.” So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city. The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you? Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites. From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites. At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah. Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred select troops who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle. The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The Lord replied, “Judah shall go first.” The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah. The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah. The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day. But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day. The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The Lord answered, “Go up against them.” Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day. This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords. Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord. And the Israelites inquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The Lord responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.” Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah. They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before. The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah. While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.” All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah. Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was. The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords. Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah. Those who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword. The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city, and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.” But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke. Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them. So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there. They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east. Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters. As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.

Taylor Swift's Davidic Strength Despite Tony Conti's Benjamite Loathing #TaylorDateTony

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+--------Taylor Swift's Davidic Strength Despite Tony Conti's Benjamite Loathing
Taylor, all treasonous epithets, all my
self-loathing, coup-inducing lonely
thoughts of singleness are of the house
of Benjamin, a displaced kinsman
of a pure bloodline of girls’ dating
refusals incensed at prospects
of romance: Shimei hurling insults
“Get out, get out, you [girl] of [misery’s]
bloodshed, and worthless [gal]” as
stones at thoughts of us kissing. But
you are true Davidic mirth enfleshed, my
Ruler of Hope- tall, stately, blonde,
resilient, beautiful; lips as soft as
feathers wind-plucked from angels
ascending -apace with two coffee
cups for Bahurim, city of sentiment’s
refuge. To stare into your blue eyes there
(at Starbucks) would be Royal solace,
Mighty Men of comfort raising heart
-settling swords to threaten my distress:
Like you whispering “Tony, don’t worry…
the Throne of Us will be reclaimed soon”
 

------2 Samuel 16:5-13
When King David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from there a man of the family of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out cursing continually as he came. He threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were at his right hand and at his left. Thus Shimei said when he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and worthless fellow! The Lord has returned upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. And behold, you are taken in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed!” Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and [a]cut off his head.” But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’” Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son who came out from [b]me seeks my life; how much more now this Benjamite? Let him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him. Perhaps the Lord will look on my affliction and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.” So David and his men went on the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside parallel with him and as he went he cursed and cast stones and threw dust at him.

My Life A Dream

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+--------My Life A Dream; Joseph's Thoughts In The Pit 

I just cant shake these lucid visions,
day or night I swear it’s the strong
scent of grain fields on my bedsheet
or shirt, my aromatic future already
God-sown and reaped; I randomly cover
my ears, bracing for thunderous
snapping of sheaves, stalks
as my brothers’ kneel before mine in
homage. And everyone around thinks Im
delusional- I squint my eyes whimsically
deferring to grand effulgence of sun, moon,
stars always bowing to me. Its all so real,
of my great destiny Im so sure…that even
in betrayal's pit I don’t mourn. I know how
to bide my time: I hold fast to dreams.


------Genesis 37:5-9;19-28
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said. Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it. As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt. Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed. So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

A Persistent Belief #IamAbram

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* To all those out there waiting on dreams to come to pass

+--------A Persistent Belief; Abram's Thoughts On God's Promise

“I have known you exasperated;
a deer parched, hollow eyed, before
dust swirling from a cracked riverbed,
of ambition. I have known your back
scars, soul wounds, plodding
homeless against trunks of trees of
Mamre the Amorite praying for hope
heaven spoken. I know your wife’s
womb seeking to be opened to birth
nations. And yes, you will be father
to the world, stars as children.” This is
what God promised, to an old man
barely alive. But I believe. Somehow,
I believe Him.

------Genesis 15:1-7
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
    I am your shield,
    your very great reward.”
But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”