Sunday sermon
Getting drunk for nothing
is never an excuse
for staying sober
since you never can get drunk for nothing,
since, even if there's really nothing in it,
in the drunkenness you'll certainly find something to it
worth the drinking
even if it's only red wine,
but, of course, you need some rum
to get it really done,
I mean, the reason for this drinking
which you need for sure
more often than not,
especially if you've been sober far too long.
Thus spoke the preacher from his pulpet
to his congregation on a Sunday service
with the bishop listening to him
most seriously, whereafter he found it convenient
to comment on his parson's sermon, saying:
"Only three small things, my friend.
First: Jesus was not shot but crucified,
and second: the correct word is not Cheers! but Amen,
and the third: you just don't go down from the pulpet
sliding down the rail. But for the rest,
your sermon was indeed most interesting."
And the young priest, who well aware
of his most venerated bishop's visit and inspection,
had prepared himself with a few glasses
for the sermon, promised to himself,
that from now on he would more diligently study
what the Scripture really said
about the actual holiness of wine
in celebrating great occasions,
for let us not forget, that Jesus on his wedding
did turn water into wine, and that on the last supper
he demonstratively advocated using wine
for every sacred celebration in his name.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-11-29 at 20:51
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