a view from under the pew: amos all shook up

Gary Mitchell: Religion columnist

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes.

amos all shook up

boss you may think i

look a sight but it was

nothing compared to

the fright i took

my hair may look a bit

frizzled but my whole body

was grizzled once i emerged

from the church s washing

machine monster lurking in

the dark dank basement

down there

i tell you boss –

it s not safe for

man woman child

or animalkind

the church s basement is

where hell is boss

and the washing machine

monster is its evil lord

just the other day i

was taking a leisurely

stroll through the

church basement

looking for bargains in

sara spider s underground

discount store when

marcellus the mean nasty

ungodly black cat and a

couple of his cronies came

bounding down the

basement stairs looking for

lunch on the run – or at