1,000 Tongues

At church, the images can be frightening: like 1,000 tongues. Can you imagine 1,000 tongues singing? Disembodied tongues, flopping around or traveling industriously ala Thing from the Addams Family? And then singing too?! It’s enough to scare a fellow. And what if they weren’t organized? Just a bunch of tongues falling wetly on top of one another and clawing for space like a big bucket of slugs. Terrible, frightening images.