Even on Easter Sunday
when the church was a
jungle of lilies and
ferns fat Uncle Paul
who loved his liquor
so would pound away
with both fists on the
stone pulpit shouting
sin sin sin and the
fiery fires of hell
and I cried all after-
noon the first time I
heard what they did to
Jesus it was something
the children shouldn't
know about till they
were older but the new
maid told me and both
of us cried a lot and so
mother got another one
right away and she sent
away Miss Richardson
who came all the way
from England because
she kept telling how
her fiancé
when the church was a
jungle of lilies and
ferns fat Uncle Paul
who loved his liquor
so would pound away
with both fists on the
stone pulpit shouting
sin sin sin and the
fiery fires of hell
and I cried all after-
noon the first time I
heard what they did to
Jesus it was something
the children shouldn't
know about till they
were older but the new
maid told me and both
of us cried a lot and so
mother got another one
right away and she sent
away Miss Richardson
who came all the way
from England because
she kept telling how
her fiancé