“I am asking you to join me and my family … by fasting and praying for Mitt Romney that he will be blessed in the debates, which will be held Oct. 3rd…I know that fasting and praying brings about miracles.”–an email circulating among Mormons in several Western states.
When the pendulum is swinging and it’s aimed right at your head
When commentators turn away and give you up for dead
When you think you should have maybe gone to dental school instead
Get down on your knees and pray and fast.
When you’re losing in Ohio here’s a tip you might find handy
It’s a lesson drawn directly from God’s modus operandi
He’ll give you what you ask for if you starve yourself like Gandhi
Or mystics in the dim and distant past.
If Gallup says it’s time to curl up in a ball and die
Remember that the only Poll that counts is in the Sky.
And we’ve converted all the dead to Mormons, which is why
It doesn’t matter if we’re running last.
We’re blanketing the airwaves with a massive prayer attack
You can’t turn off commercials from the Lord’s own Super-Pac
So any day now you will see Mitt Romney bouncing back.
We’ll get the vote that God alone can cast.
and this almost beats the pizza posting! SO MANY elegant references to the Mormons’ elegant little beliefs! Did you know that Cage & I years ago started to write a libretto called (in eyetalian, of course) “I Mormoni” (that’s pronounced “eeee Mormoni”). Too bad we never got past the title and a few scenes!