Pastor Allbright

Meant to offend, as the pious and self-righteous offenders often get away with their despicable and deviant behavior. I've been on this blue marble for 70 years, and have seen and heard things...

Pastor Allbright -

a man the community knew.

 

Quiet, kept to himself
a pious man 
diddled his niece 
under the Thanksgiving table 
testing her leg with his  
salad fork 
and inching  
his bulbous thumb  
across her thigh. 
 
Slipped out back  
through the screened porch 
stepping into the  
starry, autumn night. 
out of sight of the family 
and lit a smoke. 
 
A sixty pound ball  
of frozen waste 
a blue ball of doom 
dislodged  
from the belly  
of a passing airliner 
struck the pastor  
square in the center  
of his bald pate 
killing him instantly 
his cigarette  
still burning  
in his mouth 
as he lay across the 
kid's  red wagon, 
not  to be found 
until  everyone 
had  their pie 
and  coffee. 

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Author's Note

I try not to use profanity as we know it, but it still emerges, and I recognize my own voice.