NaPM April 23, 2018

[Lizzie]

Prodigal Daughters and All That Can’t Be Said


We’ll support anyone you’d like to marry,
as long as they love The Lord.
Is he a Christian?

[The boyfriend was raised Catholic.]
―Please note the parsing, what’s said and unsaid.―

You’re living together, unmarried?
[Yes. And we’re building an alter in the backyard
for sacrificing goats to Satan.]
―I’m so funny.―

We don’t have stipulations for the wedding ceremony,
but we’d like to hear The Lord spoken of accurately.
None of this ‘god is in everything’ crap.
Here are some verses to read aloud.

[It’s a signature and a rubber stamp, mother;
I doubt the lady behind the window takes requests.]
―Grandma’s lips wrestle each other in every picture.―

We will continue to pray for the salvation of your children.
[Good, those beasts deserve punishment.
Eternal and preferably by fire.]

How are you with The Lord?
[You’d have to ask him.]

―She is, of course, deathly serious.
Sleep well, mom. The worms don’t care.―