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                          Notre Dame de Discount Store

                "It gets you out of your solitary conceit"

                              -C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock

The tin-barn brick-veneer design is weak
Much like a Wal-Mart or a Dollar Store
The dropped ceiling is high-school ticky-tack
And the poor pews are discount-warehouse veneer

No one is silent before Mass anymore
Grown men wear shorts and sneaks and cartoon tees
The woman in the pew in front of me
Is tattooed up and down her pimply back

(My opinion was not required)

But surely God is speaking to each of us,
Asking us why we have come to this place