Working Class Atheism (2)

was as proud as it was stupid
and all the more powerful
for the ease with which
it became self garbling.
It even had its own press,
which through the compression
of stories about the use of power
that once had an internal logic
into a cheap and sexist gibberish
with a nasty streak of humour
drew advertisers like never before-
but not even advertising could stop
the great mass of people going to church
for the minimum three times in their life.
For baptisms, marriages and funerals.
But with the unforgiving feudal nature
of atheistic family life participants
made it hard to pick out
any one event from any other.