Sloth

Rationalization. Amazing.

I know many

For whom

Lent does not really begin

Without the Great Litany

Chanted in procession.

Today we forewent

The probable Great Litany.

The Christmas tree

Is halfway down.

Ornaments await boxing.

My coffee cup is again

A singing bowl.

The cat is once again

Asleep.

I wonder if today

The signature sin

Is sloth.

Still

Today is Sunday

Not a real part of Lent.

Yes

Sloth it is.

Deadly sins

Ever notice how some people get more credit than others? Deserved or undeserved? Me too.

Home today

Working through some

Of the seven deadly sins.

I would rather focus

On other things.

I am stuck in the middle

Of envy, avarice and wrath.

They are embodied

By older women who have accrued

More credit than I perceive they should,

Some well-deserved

In my oh-so-discerning eye,

Some not so deserved

In my bedeviled heart.

They are writers.

Everything they write drips gold

Even when it doesn’t.

Everything they write is quoted,

And quoted,

And quoted again.

If I read one more quotation

I may rant somewhere inappropriate.

I am home trying to figure

Which sin applies.

Envy?

Avarice?

Wrath seems too big.

Pride covers all.

Gluttony, lust and sloth

Will need to wait

For another day.