Amos: ella the unenchanted ant

Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer

keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens.

ella the unenchanted ant

just the other day boss i

ran across a disillusioned

young insect

ella the apathetic ant was

ambling down a church

aisle bemoaning the state

of her life and the church

pew underworld around her

life looks so hopeless

ella moaned nothing

really matters anymore

i don t matter anymore

nobody matters anymore

and besides i really don t

care about it at all

says she after all who

really cares nobody cares

and i don t care

i don t care i don t care

you have to care says me

if you don t care everything

loses its importance in life

so what says the impertinent

little ant i don t care

i think you think you don t

care but deep down you

really do care and you want

other folks to care about

you says me playing the

role of bug-chiatrist

i think you think so much

that your thinking got

twisted in its own thinking

and now your thinking is

thinking about its own

thinking

i don t know what you just

said but i disagree with it

says me

see you don t care about

me says ella you just

want to argue with me and

that s why i don t care

i don t care i don t care

tell me again what has put

you in this state of mind

what has distressed you and

made you so blind to the joys

of life and the fellowship of

your kind

everybody mistreats me and

everybody hates me my boss

hates me my kids hate me

even my bugtussle gazette

newsbug hates me nobody

likes me and i would eat a

worm but they hate

me and i hate them

and besides says she i don t

care i don t care i don t care

i know says me you said that

before

just then boss virgil the

praying mantis came up and

says to ella you may not care

and you may think that others

don t care about you but there s

one who does care for you

i m not sure i believe you says

ella but not so stubbornly

you don t have to believe me

but it s right there in first peter

chapter five verses 6 and 7

humble yourselves therefore

under the mighty hand of god

that he may exalt you in due

time casting all your care

upon him for he careth for you

with that boss virgil hugged

little ella and said i care

about you and god cares

about you

then we all laughed and cried

together and ella says god

cares god cares god cares

it was a touching moment boss

so we all decided to go out

for pizza

amos