It’s Awards Night
at the Shady Acres Rest Home.
Everyone is propped
in folding chairs wondering
who the residents will give
their annual awards to.
Granny Bates says she will give
her award to Martin and Hugh
for changing the world the most.
Martin broke off from Rome
and gave everyone a choice
to attend his new church
or remain with Rome.
Others broke off from Martin.
Now there are 23,000 churches
using the King James Bible yet
find verses they don’t agree on.
It’s a shame, says Granny.
All churches have leaders but
Rome has the only pope although
some say there are 23,001 popes.
Before Hugh brought out Playboy,
men married women earlier in life
and didn’t return them as often.
Playboy paved the way for
television and the Internet to let
men savor women from afar
without the manacles of marriage.
With all this in mind, Granny
has decided to give her
Granny Bates Award for Choice to
Martin and Hugh, not to the Court
that gave America Roe v. Wade.
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