Sunday Best
see them get all cleaned up
shaven & schellacked
bearing suits, long long gingham dresses
(hide them alluring ankles)
&
the shiniest shoes that money can buy,
regardless of whether or not
it set them back---
in their “sunday best”
they go to worship
the splendid characters of fiction
as put down in the big book of bull*****
that has been edited & rewritten,
edited & rewritten,
reshaped & chopped up,
to suit every tyrant, every despot &
every dictator who needed some
food for the sheep &
after thousands of years,
the sheep still come to
baaaaaaaaaaaaa
at a specific location on
sunday,
all decked out in the most
conservative duds that they can
muster,
because, apparently that’s what their
most precious fictional personality
would do, what with his swaddling clothes &
carpenter’s attire
every other day of the week.
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2012
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