I’ve been on a writing drought since early December, so until I get my writing juju back, please enjoy this old parody I wrote.
I am the Very Model of a Modern Super Pastor
I am the very model of a modern, super pastor
I have information tried and true, hip and new and faster
I know all the reformers, and I quote divines historical
From Augustine to Teilhard, in order categorical
He knows all the reformers, and he quote divines historical
From Augustine to Teilhard, in order categorical
I’m very well acquainted too with matters psychological
I understand dysfunctions, both the simple and fanatical
About depression syndrome, I’m teeming with a lot o’ news —
With many cheerful facts of how to diagnose your spouse’s blues
I know our mythic history, St. Whitefield’s and ol’ bonnie Knox
I answer apologetics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in bullet form the vision thing of Willow Creeker
With power point I highlight serving Starbucks to Joe Seeker
He quotes in bullet form the vision thing of Willow Creeker
With power point he highlights serving Starbucks to Joe Seeker
I can tell undoubted Warhols from Lichensteins and comic books
I know the midriff well of Spears although my dear I never looks
Then I can hum a tune of which the choir has sung just once before
And whistle all the airs from every hymn and song in time four-four
Then I can write a consultant’s bill in Hebrew hieroglyphics
And tell you every detail of my neighbors’ demographics
In short, in matters tried and true, hip and new and faster
I am the very model of a modern, super pastor
In short, in matters tried and true, hip and new and faster
He is the very model of a modern, super pastor
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C.A. Hutchinson, May 2003 with thanks
and apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, 1879
Very nicely done!
Darn, and I was so hoping for Gilbert ... O ... Sullivan. But this is pretty nice, and also will suffice.😉 #DivineDoggerel