a view from under the pew: the green pea convention

Gary Mitchell: Religion columnist

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

Editor’s note: In honor of the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Amos presents this week’s column focusing on respecting one another – no matter one’s color or creed. 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.

the green pea convention

one night in my dreams

boss i found myself in

the middle of a green

pea convention

all the famous green

peas were there -

sweet pea garden pea

field pea split pea

chickpea and one

lonely cowpea - or

more commonly known

as black-eyed pea

there i was boss

surrounded by all sorts

of round roly-poly

green peas except for

this little black-eyed pea

where d this big ole

ugly hairy looking pea

come from says one

green pea to another

about me

i m not an ugly hairy

looking pea says me

i m a mouse and proud

of it i groused