amos the churchmouse: amos on perseverance

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

Editor’s note: In response to a reader’s request, Amos asked we reprint a favorite column. Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hurling himself at the keys, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens.

amos on perseverance

boss i think i might have

mentioned this before

but life ain t easy

under a church pew

the heathen alley cats have

declared war on me they

climb up on the window ledge

outside the church and sneer

at me through the stained glass

windows it s unnerving boss

and sometimes makes

my little tail quiver

and not only that but the

church custodian is out to

get me i know he is boss i

keep dodging his mop but

one of these days he s gonna

get me and i ll be the first

real live waxed mouse

you ve ever seen

oh and then a few days ago

some kids spilled some

koolaid all over the

volleyball net and stuck it in

a crumpled pile right behind the

storeroom door so when i

dived under the door to get

away from marcellus the cat

i found myself tangled up

in the clutches of a koolaid

flavored mass of stringy net

so twisted and contorted

was i that my tail was

dangling in front of my

whiskers