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                            Our Lady of the Perpetual Garbage Sale

It’s for the youth

Our parish hall is now a re-sale shop
All full of junk that never goes away
Boxes of videotapes and castoff slop
And smelly clothes that have had their day

It’s for the youth

The Mass no longer ends with “Ite, missa est”
But rather, “After Mass would some of the men…”
Shift the same old debris without let or rest
Sisyphean labors for original sin

It’s for the youth

Fellowship after Mass is tired and pale -
The one eternal is the garbage sale

But it’s for the youth