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A man I know went to confession He told the priest of his obsession of nuns dressed in latex Making big paycheques Taking part in a second profession
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Feb 28
Feb 28, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
A visit to confession
The crucifix Was on the wall Of the chapel; It was a large Crucifix that Occupied most Of the wall space. Martha loved it And visited It as often As she could in The school hours, Even though this Was not allowed. And one morning During break time She sneaked in there And stood in front Of whom she called The crucified And talked to Him In soft whispers. And old nun passed And noticed that The door was now Open and went In and spotted Martha standing Muttering to The crucifix. No pupils are Permitted here In school hours, The old nun said. Marha muttered On quietly As if the nun Had not spoken. I said no child Is allowed here In school hours, The old nun said. Martha then stopped And turned around: You know it’s rude To interrupt People talking, Let alone one Praying to Christ, Martha uttered. It’s the school rules, The nun replied. Martha turned back To the large Christ And said loudly: The Crucified Wanted me here. But the old nun Just repeated Her prior words, Giving Martha A critical Stare and stood there. Martha then crossed herself slowly, And walked away Giving the nun A cold hard gaze, And walked onwards As the bell rang For next lessons. And she muttered in a soft prayer: Sorry I left, But the old bat Wouldn’t let me stay behind there.
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Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM UTC
Martha One Morning 1963.
Nuns riding the Segway What are they doing today?
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Jul 26, 2020
Jul 26, 2020 at 6:07 PM UTC
Segway Nuns
She irritates you so you choose to sit next to her in recreation, allow the irritation to bring in, like a screaming child, that special love beyond the norm, listen to her moans and groans as if they were music to your ears. She sighs at your attempt to sew the stockings of another nun, and taking her sighs as if they were prayers you breathe them on their way, finger the needle through the wool more carefully, as if the Blessed ****** herself were then to wear, you gaze upon the nun like one in love, not glare. She fingers her rosary and clutters her beads quite noisily, mumbling her prayers like a child stomping the stairs, but you hear the music in the beads clicking and her mumbling voice, a free concert and no longer an irritation to head nor nerves, so you give it and her the love she deserves.
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Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
Sister Therese's Method of Love 1896
Anne stuck her tongue out at the back of the departing nun. A third degree on her bad behaviour with the other kids at the nursing home and her attitude with other nuns had been noted. The stump of her amputated leg throbbed; her absent toes itched. The nun crossed the lawn and disappeared into the home. The Kid walked over to where she sat in her wheelchair and sat beside her. What did the penguin want? He said. She's had complaints about me, Anne replied, the sick prats have grassed. He gazed at the leg stump where she'd pulled up her red skirt. Looks redder than usual, he said. Have your eyeful, Kid, she said moaningly. Have you showed Sister Paul? He said. I wouldn't show her my backside if it was on fire, she replied, pulling down her skirt. Push me out to the beach, Kid, I need sea air, she said. O.k., he said, and pushed her wheelchair along the avenue of trees to the back gate and out by beach and sea. Breath in the air, Kid; this is it; the wildness of the sea and the wind blowing free.
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Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 12:50 PM UTC
Girl and the Sea 1958.
What's your name skinny kid? Benny. He looked at the girl in the wheelchair with one leg. I’ll call you Skinny Kid. She looked past him at other kids on the lawn and on the swings. Why you here? she added looking back at him. Had an operation and am here for rest. He looked at her red skirt and the one leg visible. What happened to your leg? She pulled up her red skirt and showed him the stump. Lost it, can't find it anywhere; have a good gawk, Kid. He did. Can I touch it? She stared at him sure why not. He touched her stump. It feels warm. Look out the penguins are about. She pulled down her skirt. The boy looked back at the lawn and saw a tall nun dressed in black walk towards them. He sat on one of the white metal chairs. The nun stopped by the table and stared at Benny. You are the new boy? Yes I’m Benny. She nodded. She gazed at the girl. I hope you are behaving and not leading Benny astray. Anne looked at the nun. I always behave Sister Paul. The nun didn't look convinced. That has yet to be seen. The nun turned and walked to the swings and talked to other kids. That crow is always on my case, Kid, avoid her like the piles. Benny nodded and put on one of his good boy smiles.
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Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 at 2:24 PM UTC
MEETING ANNE 1959
The Miss, Misters and Mrs., And the St. Joseph's Sisters, Made me a Bluejay, Jay- jaying and soaring Over Wrens and Robins Below in five rows. Teeth marks on Ticondarogas, Initialed pink rubbers, Toothpicks and fingers Solved all those problems. Sister Lucille showed me Sarnia On the Neilson Wall Map, With the Malted Milk, Crispy Crunch bars staring back. They looked too delicious, Her reprimand was contritious, I'm doing time during recess, Ninety minutes til lunch. We stood in a crooked line, Like a snake, to get marked, With her drawer a crack open We'd get a peek at her strap. Black or red, correctively cold; Sister Roseangela, we'd heard, Cried, Quid Pro Quo. We had football baseball, And hockey dreams, Volleyball, basketball, And funeral teams; Field Days, Holy Days, Days needed at home; Teachers were coaches, With little time to complain; But the kids back then Just weren't the same. There were skirmishes, fouls, Strike outs and time outs; We were sliced white bread, No rye or whole grain. We'd march double file Once a week to the Church, To genuflect and reflect At the Stations and Cross. To confess, get redress, Display penitent remorse, Though keeping a secret From the Confessional box, A comfort and curse. Their objective succeeded, The lessons went deep; Using the three Rs, The ABCs, 1, 2, 3s, To impart and ingraine How to carry one's cross. I remember by name The Miss,  Misters and Mrs. And St. Joseph's Sisters Who gave their all, Each day, and always. They've gone or retired, But recalled in tranquility For the life-lessons I admire.
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Apr 29, 2017
Apr 29, 2017 at 12:06 PM UTC
The Miss, Misters and Mrs.
The Miss, Misters and Mrs., And the St. Joseph's Sisters, Made me a Bluejay, Jay- jaying and soaring Over Wrens and Robins Below in five rows. Teeth marks on Ticondarogas, Initialed pink rubbers, Toothpicks and fingers Solved all those problems. Sister Lucille showed me Sarnia On the Neilson Wall Map, With the Malted Milk, Crispy Crunch bars staring back. They looked too delicious, Her reprimand was contritious, I'm doing time during recess, Ninety minutes til lunch. We stood in a crooked line, Like a snake, to get marked, With her drawer a crack open We'd get a peek at her strap. Black or red, correctively cold; Sister Roseangela, we'd heard, Cried, Quid Pro Quo. We had football baseball, And hockey dreams, Volleyball, basketball, And funeral teams; Field Days, Holy Days, Days needed at home; Teachers were coaches, With little time to complain; But the kids back then Just weren't the same. There were skirmishes, fouls, Strike outs and time outs; We were sliced white bread, No rye or whole grain. We'd march double file Once a week to the Church, To genuflect and reflect At the Stations and Cross. To confess, get redress, Display penitent remorse, Though keeping a secret From the Confessional box, A comfort and curse. Their objective succeeded, The lessons went deep; Using the three Rs, The ABCs, 1, 2, 3s, To impart and ingraine How to carry one's cross. I remember by name The Miss,  Misters and Mrs. And St. Joseph's Sisters Who gave their all, Each day, and always. They've gone or retired, But recalled in tranquility For the life-lessons I admire.
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The new nun wheeled Anne out of the French windows and onto the lawn. To the end table, Anne said, where the Kid is. The nun wheeled the wheelchair slowly over the lawn, past other tables where children sat playing Snap, past the swings and slide, where kids were gathered, and on down to the small white table at the end where she stopped. Hello Benny, the nun said, how are you? I'm fine, Benny said, looking at Anne who pulled a face. OK Sister you can go now prayer time soon. O so it is, the nun said, and turning like some flapping black crow she walked off. Talk about slow, I could have wheeled myself quicker, we were almost past by a snail back there, Anne said. Benny smiled. Right Kid I want you to push me on to the beach, we're going to have a fun time out and away from the sick and dying ones, we're going to see the sea and gulls and throw stones at the tide and any gull that ventures too near. Ought we to ask Sister Paul first, get permission? Benny said. Permission? That's for the weak and kids, we do what we want, Kid, now are you ready? Yes sure, he said, got some biscuits from the breakfast table and a couple of rolls too. Good Kid you're learning, anyone see you? Anne said. No no one, he said. Good Kid, now let's go before the penguins see us go. So Benny got behind the wheelchair and began to wheel her along the path between the trees towards the back gate. A voice called to them, the young new nun's voice floated away as they went out the back gate and on to the path by the sand. Anne said: push Kid, before the nun follows. So the Kid pushed faster and and faster and down onto the beach and making two ridges in the sand he moved as fast as his 10 year old legs could go. Then they came to a stop where the sand held the wheels. Here will do Kid, sit beside me a while. What about stones to throw? He asked. Later Kid, for now we watch the sea and breathe in the fecking air, get it into your lungs Kid this is what life's about Kid, fecking breathe. So he breathed in the air and the sea smell and he smiled. Anne said: life is what you make it Kid, none of those penguins around. He sat and breathed in the soft air; he could hear gulls and the sea sound.
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Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 3:49 AM UTC
THE SEA SOUND 1959.
The new nun wheeled Anne out of the French windows and onto the lawn. To the end table, Anne said, where the Kid is. The nun wheeled the wheelchair slowly over the lawn, past other tables where children sat playing Snap, past the swings and slide, where kids were gathered, and on down to the small white table at the end where she stopped. Hello Benny, the nun said, how are you? I'm fine, Benny said, looking at Anne who pulled a face. OK Sister you can go now prayer time soon. O so it is, the nun said, and turning like some flapping black crow she walked off. Talk about slow, I could have wheeled myself quicker, we were almost past by a snail back there, Anne said. Benny smiled. Right Kid I want you to push me on to the beach, we're going to have a fun time out and away from the sick and dying ones, we're going to see the sea and gulls and throw stones at the tide and any gull that ventures too near. Ought we to ask Sister Paul first, get permission? Benny said. Permission? That's for the weak and kids, we do what we want, Kid, now are you ready? Yes sure, he said, got some biscuits from the breakfast table and a couple of rolls too. Good Kid you're learning, anyone see you? Anne said. No no one, he said. Good Kid, now let's go before the penguins see us go. So Benny got behind the wheelchair and began to wheel her along the path between the trees towards the back gate. A voice called to them, the young new nun's voice floated away as they went out the back gate and on to the path by the sand. Anne said: push Kid, before the nun follows. So the Kid pushed faster and and faster and down onto the beach and making two ridges in the sand he moved as fast as his 10 year old legs could go. Then they came to a stop where the sand held the wheels. Here will do Kid, sit beside me a while. What about stones to throw? He asked. Later Kid, for now we watch the sea and breathe in the fecking air, get it into your lungs Kid this is what life's about Kid, fecking breathe. So he breathed in the air and the sea smell and he smiled. Anne said: life is what you make it Kid, none of those penguins around. He sat and breathed in the soft air; he could hear gulls and the sea sound.
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Mary's father is sitting in the lounge reading a newspaper before dinner Mary comes into the room and sits in the armchair by the window and peers out her father lowers the newspaper there's talk of you from the nuns he says she turns and looks at him is there good I hope she says no it's not he says o well there you are Da you can't please all of the people all of the time never the time with you it seems with the nuns he says he shakes out the newspaper making noise what's it this time? she says sitting back in the armchair letting her backside comfy words you've said he says raising the paper and peering over the top what words? I speak civil and  I answer the **** questions about God and the religion and maths etc. what word is this? she says he sighs wishes she were a young little girl still not some 14 year old know it all with a mouth on her he lowers the paper and takes out a letter from his waistcoat pocket (slightly ******* up) and offers it to her here read it yourself he says she leans out of the chair and takes the letter from his hand and sits back down again and unfolds the letter and reads he lifts the newspaper and reads a sports page I never did Mary says never in my precious to Christ life have I said that she reads on staring at the page as if it had criticized her (which it did) they're like the fecking Gestapo she mutters I was not kissing Magdalene I was whispering something to her Mary mutters to the page (and her father if he was listening) and I never did call Sister Clare a ****** waster Mary muttered on then she refolds the letter and puts it on the arm of the chair and gazes at her father well? he says what have you to say for yourself? she gazes at him once he'd have tanned her behind and sent to bed without dinner but he'd gone soft on her since she'd grown **** and tried negotiation instead what's for dinner? she says wait and see he says so what about the contents of the good nun's letter? he says it was one of those days she says womanly things gets to me her father lifts the newspaper and says tiredly I see.
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May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 2:49 AM UTC
MARY AND FATHER AND LETTER 1963.
Mary's father is sitting in the lounge reading a newspaper before dinner Mary comes into the room and sits in the armchair by the window and peers out her father lowers the newspaper there's talk of you from the nuns he says she turns and looks at him is there good I hope she says no it's not he says o well there you are Da you can't please all of the people all of the time never the time with you it seems with the nuns he says he shakes out the newspaper making noise what's it this time? she says sitting back in the armchair letting her backside comfy words you've said he says raising the paper and peering over the top what words? I speak civil and  I answer the **** questions about God and the religion and maths etc. what word is this? she says he sighs wishes she were a young little girl still not some 14 year old know it all with a mouth on her he lowers the paper and takes out a letter from his waistcoat pocket (slightly ******* up) and offers it to her here read it yourself he says she leans out of the chair and takes the letter from his hand and sits back down again and unfolds the letter and reads he lifts the newspaper and reads a sports page I never did Mary says never in my precious to Christ life have I said that she reads on staring at the page as if it had criticized her (which it did) they're like the fecking Gestapo she mutters I was not kissing Magdalene I was whispering something to her Mary mutters to the page (and her father if he was listening) and I never did call Sister Clare a ****** waster Mary muttered on then she refolds the letter and puts it on the arm of the chair and gazes at her father well? he says what have you to say for yourself? she gazes at him once he'd have tanned her behind and sent to bed without dinner but he'd gone soft on her since she'd grown **** and tried negotiation instead what's for dinner? she says wait and see he says so what about the contents of the good nun's letter? he says it was one of those days she says womanly things gets to me her father lifts the newspaper and says tiredly I see.
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Magdalene watches her father dig over his garden plot, from her small bedroom view, his back bent then upright, sweaty brow he wipes with the back of his large hand. Her mother is cooking the dinner in the hot large kitchen below stairs. Father's got a dark mood, just because the nuns wrote about me and Mary being seen in the bog (lavatory) together. What were you doing there? He bellowed once he'd read the letter. Just talking, nothing else. In the bog; can't you stop talking just long enough to answer the call of **** NATURE? He shouted. Then he slapped her backside in passing to go out to his plot to dig out his anger. She watches as he stands, straightens up, rubs his back, wipes his brow, then proceeds to dig more. Her backside still stings now, but her thoughts and feelings are on young Mary whose body she loves, whose lips she kissed, **** him, she says, seeing a Magpie settling behind him on the ground. Mary's dad will not be please if he got a **** letter too, God's knows what, she mutters, he will do.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 5:16 AM UTC
THE LETTER 1963.
You want to be a nun? Magdalene said sitting on her bed in her room with Martha sitting beside her listening to a Beatles LP on the record player on the floor Martha said yes one of those ones who pray all day not like those at school who have to teach brats like us Magdalene smiled who'd be a fecking nun like that but to be a contemplative nun is something else Martha like out of this world so it is Martha gazed at the turning LP on the turntable I want to be a bride of the Crucified she said Magdalene stared at her bride of Christ? she said Martha nodded in some convent miles from anywhere and no fellars around to touch you or lift your fecking dress or skirt and ask to see your underclothes ******** Magdalene sensed Martha near her thigh close to hers almost touching she smelt of soap and toast odd combination but that's Martha she let her elbow touch Martha's that's boys for you always out for something Magdalene said wishing Martha would turn around now and kiss her but she knows she won't but she like Mary best she's probably would kiss hopefully one day ciggie? Martha said getting a packet out of her dress pocket Magdalene nodded and took a cigarette and Martha lit both cigarettes and they sat and inhaled in thought when I see or touch the Crucified I come out in goosebumps Martha said suddenly Magdalene frowned what the real one? she said no the Crucified in church or at school in the hall the big one who spreads His arms wide and looks skyward Magdalene smiled and put a hand around Martha's shoulder that's cute she said I kiss His feet in church when no one's looking Martha said or on my rosary but His feet are small on that and I'm probably kissing His legs as well not that He'd mind but it's feet I like to kiss like that Mary Magdalene did she said Magdalene wished she could kiss any part of Martha just the once or so she hugged her tight as she spoke and mused you never know.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 3:06 AM UTC
YOU NEVER KNOW 1963.
You want to be a nun? Magdalene said sitting on her bed in her room with Martha sitting beside her listening to a Beatles LP on the record player on the floor Martha said yes one of those ones who pray all day not like those at school who have to teach brats like us Magdalene smiled who'd be a fecking nun like that but to be a contemplative nun is something else Martha like out of this world so it is Martha gazed at the turning LP on the turntable I want to be a bride of the Crucified she said Magdalene stared at her bride of Christ? she said Martha nodded in some convent miles from anywhere and no fellars around to touch you or lift your fecking dress or skirt and ask to see your underclothes ******** Magdalene sensed Martha near her thigh close to hers almost touching she smelt of soap and toast odd combination but that's Martha she let her elbow touch Martha's that's boys for you always out for something Magdalene said wishing Martha would turn around now and kiss her but she knows she won't but she like Mary best she's probably would kiss hopefully one day ciggie? Martha said getting a packet out of her dress pocket Magdalene nodded and took a cigarette and Martha lit both cigarettes and they sat and inhaled in thought when I see or touch the Crucified I come out in goosebumps Martha said suddenly Magdalene frowned what the real one? she said no the Crucified in church or at school in the hall the big one who spreads His arms wide and looks skyward Magdalene smiled and put a hand around Martha's shoulder that's cute she said I kiss His feet in church when no one's looking Martha said or on my rosary but His feet are small on that and I'm probably kissing His legs as well not that He'd mind but it's feet I like to kiss like that Mary Magdalene did she said Magdalene wished she could kiss any part of Martha just the once or so she hugged her tight as she spoke and mused you never know.
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The sisters(nuns) at the school are not happy with you Mary's father said at dinnertime at the table what's she done now? her mother said Mary swallowed a mouthful of stew eyed her father not happy with me? she said not at all her father said sternly his eyes focusing on her like a bird of prey I've done nothing Mary said   don't be telling me your lies and fables her father said or I'll put my hand across your behind her mother looked down at her plate and mouthed food Mary toyed with a fork of beef they don't understand me she said when I've one of my monthlies my mind is off balance and it disturbs my moods her father's face tinged a slight red around his cheeks her mother chewed and looked at the tablecloth pattern of blue and white Mary forked in another mouthful of stew they say you're rude and insolent he said looking beyond her at the picture of the Sacred Heart on the wall above the fireplace just trying to get through the **** bleeds she said makes me not happy being stuck there in the classroom while my mind's on a low dive and the mess and my mind down and them standing there like penguins peering at me THAT'S ENOUGH ABOUT THE NUNS he said his voice heavy his hand tapping the table palm down the mother gazed at Mary eyes fixed on her wondering if the father'd slap the girl's behind Mary put on her I'm-sorry-I'm-just- a little-innocent-girl-gaze I've been to confessions and told the priest and got absolution so I have she said eyeing her father he stared at her sitting there a 14 year old with a mouth of a 18 year old and entering that arena of womanhood with its weird month and week thing well mind your manners and see your mother about these week things he said the mother gazed at him then at her daughter and nodded and ate again he looked at his daughter and was glad there was only the one and ate a mouthful looking away at the Christ's pointing finger at his Sacred Heart Mary nodded and stared at her plate and mouthed a fork of beef sensing a danger pass and a felt deep relief.
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 2:18 AM UTC
FELT A DEEP RELIEF 1963.
The sisters(nuns) at the school are not happy with you Mary's father said at dinnertime at the table what's she done now? her mother said Mary swallowed a mouthful of stew eyed her father not happy with me? she said not at all her father said sternly his eyes focusing on her like a bird of prey I've done nothing Mary said   don't be telling me your lies and fables her father said or I'll put my hand across your behind her mother looked down at her plate and mouthed food Mary toyed with a fork of beef they don't understand me she said when I've one of my monthlies my mind is off balance and it disturbs my moods her father's face tinged a slight red around his cheeks her mother chewed and looked at the tablecloth pattern of blue and white Mary forked in another mouthful of stew they say you're rude and insolent he said looking beyond her at the picture of the Sacred Heart on the wall above the fireplace just trying to get through the **** bleeds she said makes me not happy being stuck there in the classroom while my mind's on a low dive and the mess and my mind down and them standing there like penguins peering at me THAT'S ENOUGH ABOUT THE NUNS he said his voice heavy his hand tapping the table palm down the mother gazed at Mary eyes fixed on her wondering if the father'd slap the girl's behind Mary put on her I'm-sorry-I'm-just- a little-innocent-girl-gaze I've been to confessions and told the priest and got absolution so I have she said eyeing her father he stared at her sitting there a 14 year old with a mouth of a 18 year old and entering that arena of womanhood with its weird month and week thing well mind your manners and see your mother about these week things he said the mother gazed at him then at her daughter and nodded and ate again he looked at his daughter and was glad there was only the one and ate a mouthful looking away at the Christ's pointing finger at his Sacred Heart Mary nodded and stared at her plate and mouthed a fork of beef sensing a danger pass and a felt deep relief.
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The bells tolled in silent air, no mummers Where uttered in haste as white cloth over Black draped upon their figures. On the desecrated reminisce of ash petals That grow in this place each is picked with Elegance so not to fracture there fragility. A new one Is found to replace those that Unveiled their voices on solemn oaths to words Never to be uttered, they surrendered it t air. Voices of blood echoed on the floor, a chastity Forsaken and white cloth drank upon the wine Till it had its fill, then voiced its intent in puddles. The shaded leaf was gently dissected between fingers And where lips blessed word, the ash sealed them with The twine of dead embers, and they screamed silently. Silken coverings where bestowed on the vacant realms Of purities, in the convent of silence where the dead Don't speak and muteness is a sound only heard.
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Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM UTC
Sisters Of The Silent Ash
Anne rubbed at her stump it was sore and her toes (which weren't there) were hurting Benedict gazed at her and her leg where her skirt had risen it looks red the boy said shall I tell Sister Paul? **** her Kid she's no good she couldn't find her **** with both hands Anne said well who then? the Kid said staring hard at the stump glimpse of white knickers edge the thin nun with a face like ghost Anne said so the Kid left Anne and her stump and raced back to the white and black brick nursing home racing past other kids on his way Sister Luke was standing in the hall come quickly the Kid said Anne's stump is all red and hurting Sister Luke gazed at him her dark eyes searching him is this true? it's not one of her games she's playing? the nun said Benedict frowned no it's real I've seen it the Kid said going red it's all sore you've seen it? seen her stump? the nun said she showed you? yes she did the Kid said (but didn't say about the knickers that he'd seen) Sister Luke stared at him she shouldn't show you that the nun said that's private not for boys maybe not but please come the Kid said going red it's painful so the nun followed him on the lawn where Anne was sitting in her chair stump showing red and sore and knickers that the Kid never said that he saw.
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Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015 at 2:23 AM UTC
ANNE'S SORE STUMP 1959
At this point, I chase the white rabbit merely out of habit/ My, what big blue beautiful eyes she has. All the better to eat me with, my dear. And My, what lovely lips she has. All the better to see me with, my dear. And Those big swinging hips, All the better to ****** me with, my dear. And Her ringing voice in my ear, dissolves any fear. The tide ever rolling, rollicking into the beach As we are high, frolicking, into the undertow tide, to hide, from death inevitable. My, what hair, let down, wrung out, without a care, and through this tangled hair. My, death hath no sting nor fury, for a man such as this, me as it were, her love, oh my, is pure purgatory. Following the rabbit to the abbot, white wolf unknown, disguised in full habit. Like leading lambs to the slaughter/ Like leading lambs to the slaughter/ A love such as this, won in a bar barter. Reach beneath her dress, toss back the garter. . I beseech, I do not think it will land in my hand   And I will continue to chase the white rabbit, purely out of habit.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 2:46 PM UTC
red, riding through the hood
After the afternoon siesta one legged Anne with the aid of Skinny Kid got off the camp bed under the out door shelter and crutched her way across the lawn to their favourite white round metal table and plonked herself in one of the chairs the Kid did likewise the other kids woke and moved back into action and went either on the swings or slide or sat on tables around the lawn area look at them like the waking of the dead Anne said what was it T S Eliot said? I don't know what did this guy say? the Kid asked never thought death had undone so many or something like that it's from one of his poems o I see said the Kid Colm sat at the table with Lulu what do you two want? Anne said Sister Paul said we can sit where we like so we're sitting here Lulu said how's your **** off for spots then or is it burns? Anne said coldly it's cruel to mock her Colm said who asked you to open your cake hole Colm go back to sleep Anne said Sister Paul said all children at the nursing home are equal and can sit where they so wish Lulu said and I'm not saying about my burns or showing you as if I'd want to see your burns on your **** Lulu although the Kid here might do you want to see her burns Kid? Benny shook his head no I've no desire to do so he said I'm telling the nuns you're being unkind to us Lulu said me too Colm said unkind? well all I did was asked after the burns on your **** if that's unkind I won't ask no more Anne said Lulu and Colm up and left the table and ran across the lawn towards the home well that's them gone Kid just us now anyway I've seen her backside as she gets ready for bed each night Anne said want to wander Kid along to the beach before the penguins come out to ******* us for unkindness? sure the Kid said shall I get your wheelchair? he asked no I'll crutch my way there just keep an eye I don't fall down Anne said so they up and moved along the path between the avenue of trees and out the back gate and along the path to the beach where she sniffed the air smell that Kid that's the best smell you can get sea smell salt fresh fecking salt into your lungs and bloodstream they go along the beach and over sand and pebbles and he helped her down onto the pebbles and put her crutches beside her and sat down himself o this is the life Kid away from the sick and wanton and the fecking penguin nuns the ****** queens the Kid said nothing but stared at the sea and ships and gulls and the wind in his hair and sat and let his eyes wide stare.
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 2:40 AM UTC
AFTERNOON SIETA 1959
After the afternoon siesta one legged Anne with the aid of Skinny Kid got off the camp bed under the out door shelter and crutched her way across the lawn to their favourite white round metal table and plonked herself in one of the chairs the Kid did likewise the other kids woke and moved back into action and went either on the swings or slide or sat on tables around the lawn area look at them like the waking of the dead Anne said what was it T S Eliot said? I don't know what did this guy say? the Kid asked never thought death had undone so many or something like that it's from one of his poems o I see said the Kid Colm sat at the table with Lulu what do you two want? Anne said Sister Paul said we can sit where we like so we're sitting here Lulu said how's your **** off for spots then or is it burns? Anne said coldly it's cruel to mock her Colm said who asked you to open your cake hole Colm go back to sleep Anne said Sister Paul said all children at the nursing home are equal and can sit where they so wish Lulu said and I'm not saying about my burns or showing you as if I'd want to see your burns on your **** Lulu although the Kid here might do you want to see her burns Kid? Benny shook his head no I've no desire to do so he said I'm telling the nuns you're being unkind to us Lulu said me too Colm said unkind? well all I did was asked after the burns on your **** if that's unkind I won't ask no more Anne said Lulu and Colm up and left the table and ran across the lawn towards the home well that's them gone Kid just us now anyway I've seen her backside as she gets ready for bed each night Anne said want to wander Kid along to the beach before the penguins come out to ******* us for unkindness? sure the Kid said shall I get your wheelchair? he asked no I'll crutch my way there just keep an eye I don't fall down Anne said so they up and moved along the path between the avenue of trees and out the back gate and along the path to the beach where she sniffed the air smell that Kid that's the best smell you can get sea smell salt fresh fecking salt into your lungs and bloodstream they go along the beach and over sand and pebbles and he helped her down onto the pebbles and put her crutches beside her and sat down himself o this is the life Kid away from the sick and wanton and the fecking penguin nuns the ****** queens the Kid said nothing but stared at the sea and ships and gulls and the wind in his hair and sat and let his eyes wide stare.
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Hey Kid Anne says Benny follows to where she calls him what is it? he asks go get my chair your wheel chair? yes my wheel chair what other kind of chair do I have ok he says and goes off over the green lawn passing kids on the swing and slide pass the skinny nun who has just come whom Anne says looks like a clarinet she's so thin in through the French windows passing a girl who has ****** burns but who manages to smile at him in down the hall into the girl's dormitory and takes hold of Anne's wheel chair and is just about he to wheel it out when Sister Blaise stops him where are you going with that Benny? she asks he looks at the nun with her stern features and icy blue eyes it's for Anne he says did she ask you to get it? he looks at the crucifix on the wall behind the nun's head no I saw she was struggling and thought it best to bring it to her he says taking in the Crucified's head leaning to one side eyes half open as if He were looking at him is that the truth? the nun asks he nods and puts on his Mr Innocent face all right off you go she says eyeing him as he wheels the chair along the passageway and out through the French windows and across the lawn at full belt until he comes to where Anne stands propped painfully on her crutches any problems? she asks no he replies trying to get the nun's icy blue stare out of his eyes.
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Jun 16, 2015
Jun 16, 2015 at 3:13 AM UTC
TELL NO LIES 1959.
On the beach in the sun Anne sits in her chair her one leg hanging down her leg stump out of sight she's beside Skinny kid who reclines in a small blue deckchair other kids sit around fussed over by three nuns from the home the tides out so some kids paddle out ankle deep listen kid I hear one of the nuns had you in to question in secret what'd they ask? Anne asks it's secret Benny says I know that but tell me I'm your friend Anne says Benny looks around him about you they asked me about you Benny says Anne frowns about me? Benny nods what'd they ask? what you did what you  said and did you make me do anything Benny says what'd you say? I said you were my friend my best friend Benny says what'd they say? Sister Blaise the fat nun said it was a big sin to tell lies what'd you say? Anne asks I told her I guess so was that all? can I go? Benny says Anne smiles good work Kid keep the **** penguins stumped and things hid.
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 2:26 PM UTC
STUMPED 1959.
I recognized her familiar gait As she left ambulatory care At Bluewater Health, Once St. Joseph's Hospital. I knew her as a devout care-giver. Her spring showed her hope In the gods within, And faith in her God without. A surety in her higher power. I share her faith crossing bridges, Or waiting for autumn's bulbs To sprout and flower. The Sisters have retreated To the Mother House, Mission accomplished, No longer caring For the sick and worried. The civilians marched in, Diagnosing annuities, Giving change. The Sisters wait for Pentecost, For the whosh and whirl Of expectant miracles They once ministered.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 10:05 AM UTC
Sisters of St. Joseph's Hospital
This Black African nun in cherished photo she calls our right to vote Her kindness in her laughing squinting eyes, and her kind bow smile to match The voice of liberty written and etched upon her kind and brilliant face; all imprinted for years to come All hail her bus with her sisters all in one; a beautiful chariot on busy wheels that run across our nation to give a helping hand And lift our thirsty spirits on a dry and desolute land They hold that lamp of liberty on kind hands and gentle voice, but strong in truth be known, to hold our basic right, to close those drapes and snap a switch, to a voice of our own They cross our land in valor in gentleness and kind these nuns of liberty and justice in an unjust time Their hearts are made from goodness; their strength so often done, in a land so heavily pillaged, they will never never succumb. They see a new sun rising over the distant hill They know their work of justice never to be still...
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM UTC
Gentleness
Anne, one legged, crutched herself through passageway and hall, passed kitchen, leg stump swaying, green dress flowing, out through the French windows, moving by me in the doorway, pushing by the boss-eyed nun, out into the garden, shouting loudly: WHERE’S THE ****** SUN!
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
SUN SEEKER.