Mar 2019
Before the Mass I went to light for you
A Penny Candle (it’s a ****** now)
And with it send a prayer up through the air
Throughout the liturgy, throughout the night
But, oh, how sad that it could not be so
For all the little paper matches were damp
And all I have to offer you today
Are heaps of cardboard strips in a little tray
But even so: within my heart, you know
There is for you forever a votive glow
(****** - a Canadian dollar, but of course one needn’t put in a coin at all)
A Penny Candle (it’s a ****** now)
And with it send a prayer up through the air
Throughout the liturgy, throughout the night
But, oh, how sad that it could not be so
For all the little paper matches were damp
And all I have to offer you today
Are heaps of cardboard strips in a little tray
But even so: within my heart, you know
There is for you forever a votive glow
(****** - a Canadian dollar, but of course one needn’t put in a coin at all)
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.
