The Church of BuVu

My friends and I
invented
The Church of BuVu.
We pretend it’s
a holy meld of
Buddhism and Vudoo.
Our paperwork is in
perfect order,
so we’re official.

We’re all priests.
BuFoons
we call ourselves.

Our sacraments
are listed
on the menu at
the Bayview Restaurant.
Mine are hashbrowns
and toast.

We meet on
the Sabbath
to repent of our sins,
the deadliest of which is
taking ourselves
seriously,
followed by confession
of our failures to
imagine
more practical Love.

The only requirement
to become a BuFoon
is to believe
in your own
divinity,
but that requirement
will be waived
if you insist.

(Photo by Ellen Heinemann
from the Bless the Beasts and Children
Humane Society of Jefferson County and
The Church of BuVu of Port Townsend
0.5k Fun Run, September, 2019)