[FOsen]

When Sunday laws would force the stores to close,
it didn’t mean we had to fill a pew;
few acts, in fact, excelled compelled repose
on duvet-covered mornings, entre-nous.
But Sabbath regulations worked too well,
as folks like us preferred to stay abed,
and church attendance regularly fell,
till services, like shops, were fairly dead.

So Caesar rendered unto Mammon Sunday,
and now, for all we know, each store’s a-buzz.
We may be tempted out to see it, one day,
though Sundays we’re still staying in, because
observance laws have honed our sales resistance:
as we foresook the church and being blessed,
we now forego the sales and sales assistants—
but damned if we’ll renounce a day of rest.

Frank