A Moral Choice

St Paul's Cathedral and the City banks,
All preachers to the faithful British nation,
Were happily indulging their vocation
For making money and for giving thanks.

St Paul's Cathedral's yard was overrun
By angry mobs, the poor and the unclean,
The simple, alcoholic, mad and mean:
"Oh, deary me! Now, what would Christ have done?"

St Paul's Cathedral gave a little cough
And meditated on its holy cares,
Then shouted: "Here's some dirt upon our stairs!
Police! Police! Make haste and wipe it off!"

Rev. Sorbus Malbarb