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Church Going
(title from Philip Larkin)
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Going to church
A dangerous occupation
Are they like paper victims,
Fluttering
Into the air
Like bulletins
After the bodies fall?
Are they easy pickings
Guns kept in holsters
Where allowed
Or left at the back
It’s church, after all
We keep our eyes closed
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It happened in Georgia, Texas
Pennsylvania
(Tree of Life)
Now Nigeria
Over fifty died at mass
(defining now
the awful idiom)
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Did they die for faith
Or were they easy targets
For a coward?
A criminal?
A terrorist
A war?
Cowardice
To take on
A kneeling congregation of
Faith’s children
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Who knows
There might be justice afterward
Selah
Amen
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C L Couch
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Nigeria: town mourns more than 50 people shot dead in church during mass
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