PlutoChannel: Sun News I'm glad you guys will be holy rollin' and iockrn' soon. Since April is National Poetry Month, I thought y'all would get a kick out of this poem by Michael Chitwood, an Appalachian and Southern poet from NC.On Being Asked to Pray for a VanMy evangelical brethren have let me know,via the quarterly fundraising letter,that they can't get the gospel aroundbecause their van has given up the ghost.God in the machine, help them.I lift up their carburetor and their transaxle.Bless them with meshed gears and a greased cam shaft.Free their lifters.Deliver their differentialand anoint their valves and their pistons.Unblock their engine blockand give them deep treaded tires.Their brakes cry out to You. Hear them, O Lord.Drive out the demons from their steering columnand come in to the transmissionthat they may know the peace of passing.Minister even unto the turn indicator.Creator Spirit, Holy Maker of the Universe,give them gas.
