The fans were whirling overhead
Everyone dabbing their brows
With white cotton handkerchiefs
Looking quite red in the face
Kids were all strangely quiet
This first hot summer Sunday
The priest started the liturgy
His winter cough now long gone
The summer's heat makes its mark
People now shielding their noses
As youth swings the censer round
To breathe again when it passed
Then I nearly laughed out loud
When the organist missed a stop
or valve he was fiddling with
Resulting in a flat note
Furtively his head tooked round
Seeing a small child with scissors
Cutting a pew sheet unnoticed
It was a weird day in church
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What a wonderful scene - surreal and delicious..and entirely real i am sure
ReplyDeleteThat certainly was weird - and very entertaining. Amen!
ReplyDeleteMy story is called The Churchyard
A pretty normal day in church, I would say!
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