"Now friends"
I heard,
channel surfing,
up in the high end
where all the cable channels are.
I paused
"Dear friends
I want to tell you a story"
"AMEN"
The AMEN came from a crowd
But all I could see
was this pained look
On the TV Preachers face
"It's a story about a terrible thing
A plane crash
A terrible crash
A plane fell into the ocean
Near a city
Just after takeoff
The engines failed,
Both engines
At the same time"
"Amen brother"
The crowd again
Of course
I got up to get another
Bottle of Tejava Iced Tea
This looked like a good one
to me
"And friends
All the souls
One Hundred and Fourteen people
All the souls
On that plane were lost
In that terrible crash
Except one"
Oh boy,
A survivor
Wondering
If he was cute
I twisted the cap off violently
A very masculine act
Butch, I noticed how Butch it was
When I was twisting that cap
Right in the trash can with the cap
And back to my seat on the futon
Legs curled
Left under right
Right under left
Each foot kept warm
by the opposite leg
My futon
The one I slept on
there
For a while
Remote control on my right
Tao Te Ching on my left
And a funny TV Preacher
on my Zenith
Imagine that reporter saying
I looked fragile
Butch I'm telling you
Very Butch!
The preacher was not done of course
They never are done
"It was just a tiny little baby
An infant
The Coast Guard found this child
Moments after the crash
And they plucked him from the sea"
"Amen" from the usual source
Not me mind you
Although sometimes I will
Yell out "Amen"
To the preachers on TV
I took a sip of my Iced Tea
and decided to wait a second
See where the TV preacher was going
With the baby in the sea
Before I clicked
"That baby
That tiny child
Lost at sea after
such a terrible tragedy
There was a REASON friends
I tell ya, a REASON that child
Survived"
"AMEN"
I joined in
"AMEN BROTHER"
Then louder
I yelled it
"AMEN BROTHER"
The poor little college boy neighbors
Must have heard me
Nothing fragile
About my way of yelling
"AMEN BROTHER"
To the fraud on TV
"A reason, friends, for this child..."
CLICK
A crackling sound
cellophane being unwrapped
the high voltage to the CRT
dropped to ZERO
and my TV assumed
It's best mode
Off
I took another sip
of my Iced Tea
And picked up
The Tao Te Ching
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