Post Vatican II
They're all gone now.
They're lost in the past.
Fish on Fridays
And the Eucharistic Fast.


Honesty in Government
In 1985 they altered the title
To Poet Laureate
From Consultant in Poetry
To the Library of Congress.
Re-naming made no difference.
The same bad legislation resulted.

Congress made the change
Because after much research
It was learned that in all
The nearly fifty previous years
Not a single poet by a Member
Had even once ever been consulted.


Possibly the World's Shortest Te Deum
I said, "God forbid."
And He did.


Platonism
Consider the Unity of the Canine Condition,
All sharing a similar supposition,
From the greatest of Danes to the tniest pug:
The Idea of a Perfectly Unpissed-Upon Fire Plug.


On the Hymns
of Sunday Morning
Out of all churches
Called Christian
Steepled or storefront
Throughout America
With all of their
Squabbling
Contentious
Obstinate and
Contradictory
Theological views

I think God
Chooses to listen
Mostly to Southern
Black Baptist ones
Since God's wide
Creation, I've noted,
Is filled mainly
With two things.
One is Rhythm and
The other is Blues.