RT kuya @matthue Ever since I was a kid, I loved that image -- of someone hiding out in a tree, maybe a soldier about to attack, but foremostly of someone scared out of his mind, running for his life, and safe, if only for the moment... And that's how I always thought of the Maccabees. As these little guys on the run, just tryin' to believe what they believe without someone trying to stomp them out.
RT @mobius1ski i think macy's should have a chanukah window, like their xmas display, with maccabees forcibly removing helenized jews' foreskins.
"Efrayim joins the wind and chases the east wind" (Hoshea 12:2).
Asian trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the reeds and blood at the Rut
Brown bellies swaying in the Eastern Breeze
Strange fruits swinging from the Cypress trees
Junglist scene of the Bamboo south
The slanted eyes and the crooked mouth
Cent of rice terraces, sticky and fresh
Then the sudden stink of burning flesh
Here are Prutas for Paro to pluck
For the rain to wash, for the wind to suck
For Thy Sons to spoil, for Dragons to drop
Here is the strange and bitter crop:
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