The Vicar's Complaint

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

A preacher who prayed every night for a sign he was living it right heard thunder at ten from a blue sky, and then: 'Wrong number. But bless you. Goodnight.'
30 words · 5 lines · Limerick

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