The (Old Testament) Last Supper #IamJacob

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+------The (Old Testament) Last Supper; The Thoughts Of Jacob Preparing Lentil Stew 

I heard salvation-speak in
the womb, albeit muffled
by indignant fallopian tube lining.
The-Fall-Of-Eden agony, my mom’s
body convulsing for paradise lost,
the world shaking, my food scant
from her grief-fasting. Greater portions
falling to Esau- preparing for
preferred birth. I remember him
not caring, a hedonistic lusting
only to be fed. So I knew then
what had to be done, chicanery
to fool the devil, bloodline ruses
to raise dead spirits of my kin.
Lentil stew seasoned
not only with herbs, but a
mother’s deceit to counter the
serpent’s, the rage of Adam to
have his legacy redeemed. My life’s
work: cooking for a new birthright- so
my sons can restore everything lost.
One day.  



-----Genesis 25:19-34
This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. The Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb,
    and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
    and the older will serve the younger.”
When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them. The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob. Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.) Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.” “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?” But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.

The Red Sea Of Taylor Swift and Tony Conti's Dating Life #TaylorDateTony

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+------The Red Sea Of Taylor Swift and Tony Conti's Dating Life 

Taylor, my lover’s hopes
and dreams, on the lam. A
Hebrew people battered and
harangued by Egyptian-esque
refusal of overtures. Ten
plagues weren’t enough, my
attempts to date other girls:
locusts, hail, frogs, gnats,
flies, the death angel, etc.
efforts in earnest for romance, expel
heartbreak. And now this:
loneliness’s chariot chase to the
shores of finality. Crashing waves
of me bae-less forever. Mean girls
of my past, Pharaoh sneering.
Oh babes, without you I’d drown
I swear! But if you took me to coffee,
your hands outstretched (bedazzling
blonde hair dancing in destiny’s
winds, blue eyes; beautiful face
of proportions divine). If you kissed
me waters of pain parting, standing
tall bearing opportunity’s dry land. I’d
walk across with you to Canaan
(as your boyfriend).

-----Exodus 14:10-22
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.” Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

(A Soul) Burning #IamMoses

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+--------(A Soul) Burning; The Thoughts Of Moses As He Stood Before The Burning Bush

A bush. Branches burning yet
not consumed, I tread beneath
eyes of a starless night closer to
memory. In the crackle of wood, vigor
charged snaps of whips in Egypt;
in my (white) smoke agitated
tears, the wailing of Hebrew
mothers torn from their sons to
die at bases of pyramids half-built.

Shoeless. In incandescent raucous
flames I see iterative loops
of me murdering a man (taskmaster).
My conscience whispers “go back!”
(To Pharaoh frothing) Like
God saying there’s no healing like
redeeming the helpless, no reconciliation
without sacrifice. Really, there are
no reasons. Because He is. A God
with a name beyond fathoming.

-----Exodus 3:1-15 
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[d] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
    the name you shall call me
    from generation to generation.

I Will Teach The Boy #IamJoseph

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+------I Will Teach The Boy; The Thoughts Of Joseph Leading Jesus and Mary To Egypt 

In Egypt
I’ll teach the boy carpentry,
inculcate in him principles
of flesh chafing, metal points,
wood bloodied. Of scars that
speak of strength from pain; the
beauty of mosaic reliefs  
in synagogues, and tables, boats,
altars after much persevering. I’ll speak
of the deceitfulness of knives, the
treachery of an ax in a man’s hands,
hissing for limbs with a stray sway when
he looks away from the bench for just
one moment. So he’ll know betrayal. I’ll say
“son, remember all I taught you”
that carpentry is your life and death-
at first you will craft wood for men,
but in the end they will use wood, nails
to craft you (into God's greatest work).

-----Matthew 2:13-23
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.

The Flight To Egypt

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+------The Flight To Egypt; The Angel's Words To Joseph And Mary Fleeing Herod 

Run. Veiled beneath full moon
-cloak, your breath’s exhalation
like the pillar that led Moses
to Canaan, the faith of your
Son the flame, pitter patter of feet
on cold sands to a past life. Let him
see august pyramids built by his
forbearers, an eagle gazing at
hieroglyphs
of worship of bird-gods smirking.
Let him press his ears on
shores of the Nile, hear echoes
of Pharaoh scoffing while
taskmasters beat Hebrews
for lucre. The wailing of orphans
from years of privation.  
For when he comes back
to Jerusalem he will likewise
save his people, not with ten
mortifying plagues but blessed signs,
not followed by flesh groaning
but slave spirits lusting to be free.

------Matthew 2:13-15
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Taylor Swift's Healing Of Tony Conti's Royal Official's Son #TaylorDateTony

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+------Taylor Swift's Healing Of Tony Conti's Royal Official's Son 

Taylor, my dreams of love-
aristocratic, my heart’s
amorous ambitions the son
of an official of ancient Rome’s
Republic, expansive empire
of romantic ideals. Yet now,
the boy lay sick of cold
callous girls’ dating rejections, in
Capernaum, city of the cruelest
angels. But you: the most majestic
of maidens, tall, Messiah-like.
Your blue eyes like waves
crashing against shores of
Elysium, your gold hair Edenic,
like the glory of Eve’s hair there.
If you took me to Starbucks, an
edict divine rendered by soft lips:
“your son will live.” Your kiss like a
father’s assurance as he departs
for home in faith all will be well.
(My joy like a household full of
#TaylorDateTony believers.)

------John 4:46-54
Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed. While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.” Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed. This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Dignity Revolution #IamRahab

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+------Dignity Revolution; Rahab's Words To The Hebrew Spies She Sheltered 

When I think Revolution
I conjure despicable things- I think
Baal, Asherah, the gods
of losing my only child to
ritual flames; Consigning
then, the rest of my days to selling
my body for bread anesthetizing
the pain. My orphan’s plight,
my parents as bloody collateral
for warding off war’s attendant
apocalypses from a raid by invaders
just as depraved as our soldiers.
So when my neighbors (sullen)
spasm at legends of Egypt’s
sea parting, you Hebrews razing
all we have known to the ground…
I smile sinisterly. This scarlet
cord’s my chance for New Life.
With a Just God that takes pity
on the oppressed.


------Joshua 2:8-21
Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below. “Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.” “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.” So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.” Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house. 19 If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them. But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.” “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.” So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.