Ponderings
Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power
we so blithely invoke?
Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it?
The churches are children playing on the floor
with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT
to kill a Sunday morning.
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hat to church;
we should all be wearing crash helmets.
Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares;
they should lash us to our pews.
~Annie Dillard
we so blithely invoke?
Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it?
The churches are children playing on the floor
with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT
to kill a Sunday morning.
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hat to church;
we should all be wearing crash helmets.
Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares;
they should lash us to our pews.
~Annie Dillard
2 comments:
I LOVE this quote and I LOVE Annie Dillard.
Nice quote!
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