-Notes for the poem in progress: "God on our side"-

Note: cap God.

Priest drinks wine at the altar, where we washed his thumbs with water.

cap Priest.
God's lurking behind the tabernacle door.

Priest buys a new Pontiac.

Priest has a new pitch.

Priest plays basketball on the playground tarmac.

Priest plays “H.O.R.S.E” on the tarmac.

Priest stinks at "H.O.R.S.E"..
Priest shows-up at testimonials and funerals.
Pontiac engine idles at curbside outside the playground's fence.

Note: a tightly inflated basketball

bouncing on the tarmac sounds metallic;

there's a sort-of pinging..

it emits an echo, a ringing of sorts ––

sounds of the Benediction, one note in the jingle
of the rocking thurible, the scent of Benediction, its belly
bloated with the smoke of stinging incense. 

Note:–– Pontiac's column-lever shifts to drive.

who knows where the Pontiac goes.

we see who’s riding with Priest.

we don’t recognize what’s what.

Note: Little League baseball's testimonial luncheon
is held at Magoni's Family Restaurant across the river.

Priest sits slurping the soup course at the head table.

Tony Scelsi wins team M.V.P..

Note: it was Tony riding along in the Pontiac
as it pulled away from court-side beyond the playground's fence.

Note: don't use caps beginning sentences save for proper nouns.

Note: it might be best not to mention Tony by name.