Mean Street

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. - Thoreau

it was hard to listen to the preacher's sermon

i kept trying to imagine the sins he was guilty of

especially when push comes to shove

afterwards there was coffee with a meet and greet

just before we all stepped back out onto mean street

determined

Author's Note

“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made." - Thoreau

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

An hour on Sunday hardly compensates for the rest of the week. That is when we have to be alert for the control of our behavior. That goes for preachers, too.

[Pete]

a few years ago, a friend invited me to a new church that was being started. it was in the process of being developed. i went to a couple of their breakfasts and a cookout. i always had an uncomfortable feeling with the man who was to be the pastor. turns out that he was having an affair despite being married. needless to say, that was the end of that church.