amos the churchmouse: the attack of the birds

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

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.

the attack of the birds

boss there have been

some strange air currents

passing through the church

pew underworld these days

in alfred hitchcock-style

the birds have landed and

they re causing more

ruckus than an octopus

on a merry-go-round

first came the parrots

who repeat what others

say - have you heard

what so-and-so said -

they re the ones who

always cry - they say

they say - and boss

their gossipy ways may

completely undermine

the church pew family

then came fauntleroy the

fan-tailed pigeon who

strutted all through the

underworld flashing his

pinfeathers and wanting

to be the focus of

attention but boss all

he managed to do was

cause confusion disgust

and jealousy

but fauntleroy was

nothing compared to

horace the hawk whose

sharp eyes never missed

a fault committed by

pastor leroy beetle the

songbird choir and any

church pew member

horace always preys on

the helpless and he

usually sat by himself

in the corner pew

then the jay birds came

in a bunch fussing

chattering screeching to

high heaven and making

a hell on earth

after them came

the bats the old

hypocrites in the bird

family - the bat looks

like a bird from one

angle and a rodent from

another