Where The Steeple Needs Straightening

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. - Thoreau

Blind Melon - Nico Album Cover

with the novel of your needled story sewn on a lonely arm

expecting no sapid manna from heaven

sitting way back in the last pew

where smoky, candles flicker and good books are quietly thumbed through and through

where all that matters is what you say, not what you do

don't bother calling me on your cracked cell phone

i already know just where to look for you

Author's Note

"Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine." - Thoreau