amos the churchmouse: amos tries the new craze

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

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

amos tries the new craze

boss there s a new form of

high-class entertainment

here in the church pew

underworld these days –

naw it s not roping wild

aphids or dunking

millipedes or trying to

catch greased pot-bellied

pigs – as much fun as

all that sounds

the young daredevils of the

church kitchen are calling it

the spaghetti dive and all the

church pew crew now flock

to the top of the water faucet to

dive into the church s leftover

sunday night spaghetti

and meatball dinner

it all started by accident or

at least by drunkenness

rudy the sewer rat thought

he was a high-wire circus

performer tiptoeing along

the edge of the kitchen sink

when he missed a step and

fell headlong into the bowl

help help says he

in between gurgles of

spaghetti sauce

it wasn t long boss before

a crowd began to gather

around the sink s edge

hey looky there rudy s

swimming in the spaghetti

hey rudy whatcha doing

help help was all the

drunken sewer rat could

utter but nobody heard

him through all the sauce

that looks like fun says

sammy salamander let s

dive in too