a view from under the pew: amos hears the lady canaries

Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes.

amos hears the lady canaries

boss i couldn t believe it

i was so excited

the four lady canaries were

coming to little bugtussle

to sing

like one of the performers

said bugtussle isn t the

end of the earth but you

can see it from here

still they were here

anyway - the four

lady canaries - that award-

winning quartet that had

nine number one hits

in the church pew

underworld in the last

two years - and here they

were in all their harmony

and sunshiny beauty

when we arrived at our

tinpan alley auditorium

just behind nanny graygoat s

greasy spoon diner -

parenthesis here boss -

garbage cans filled to

varying levels make great

acoustics - not to mention

the dramatic effects that

neon lights reflecting

off the oil spots in the

alley make - end

parenthesis here boss –

the whole stage area was

filled with fog and smoke

it was great but i couldn t

figure out which aisle or

seat i was supposed to sit

in and i tripped over clara

centipede s multiple feet

and fell into polly porcupine

since it was a christian

concert everyone politely

de-needled me just before

the music started

louie the songdog was hunched

forward in the seat in front of

sammy salamander and when

the singing started so did louie s

tail