Sunday, October 17, 2021

Church of Our Lady of the Perpetual Garbage Sale - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Our Lady of the Perpetual Garbage Sale

 

It’s for the youth

 

Our parish hall is now a re-sale shop

All full of junk that never goes away

Boxes of videotapes and castoff slop

And smelly clothes that have had their day

 

It’s for the youth

 

The Mass no longer ends with “Ite, missa est

But rather, “After Mass would some of the men…”

Shift the same old debris without let or rest

Sisyphean labors for original sin

 

It’s for the youth

 

Fellowship after Mass is tired and pale -

The one eternal is the garbage sale

 

But it’s for the youth

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