{"id":5255,"date":"2025-03-25T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/?page_id=5255"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:28:09","slug":"a-song-for-the-passover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/index.php\/a-song-for-the-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song for the Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1742914303900{margin-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6a292e4a11588{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-0 vcex_6a292e4a11588\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">For the Swedes and the Brooklynites<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221;]i was brought out<br \/>\nof egypt i came out<br \/>\nof egypt i was brought<br \/>\nout of egypt i came out<br \/>\nof egypt i went to rome,<br \/>\nmainz, flatbush, New York<br \/>\nI CAME OUT OF EGYPT. i went to babylon i came out of egypt<br \/>\n&amp; in egypt i<br \/>\nremember my slavery &amp; how<br \/>\njewels from Susan&#8217;s navel<br \/>\nis seduction<br \/>\nfor your fingers<br \/>\n&amp; eyes\/<br \/>\nit is good<br \/>\nenough for a child<br \/>\nbut not for a woman<br \/>\nor man. O Yahweh<br \/>\nthe highest God, Creator<br \/>\nof all, i have never worshipped<br \/>\nthe sun or the moon or believed<br \/>\nthat all gods had been men &amp;<br \/>\ni have thought Pallas Athena<br \/>\na true pig eater\/ not Esther<br \/>\nthe highest star! O Yahweh<br \/>\nI have hated &amp; despised<br \/>\nthe criminal pantheon of<br \/>\nAmerican crackpot idolatry!<\/p>\n<p>O Yahweh<br \/>\nmy disturbing moments<br \/>\nhave been many\/<br \/>\nwhen i wanted<br \/>\nto be called deliverer<br \/>\nthey called me mule-dog<br \/>\ni was pious<br \/>\n&amp; their blasphemy shocked me!<br \/>\nO Yahweh, i can be prepared<br \/>\nto skid on bloody wet flesh<br \/>\nof martyred Canaanite Jews<br \/>\nto sing thy name! I have glutted<br \/>\non &amp; i am fed up with unholy<br \/>\npagan bullshit\/ I want a brief<br \/>\nglimpse of King David<br \/>\ncaressing the little<br \/>\nShulamite&#8217;s flanks. 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