Baptism - by A.E. Plastic

Colette equine

and lacquered

watches her words

under mama’s stinting gaze

molecules blood fluids

all out of sight

plough on

Reverend swishes past

lunch-bellied satrap

assured and thespian

Mrs. McGinnity’s girl

isn’t it ah you’ve the look

of your da

a sad loss

to the parish a sad loss indeed

in one fell movement

larrups the back of

Padraig crestfallen father

aren’t you the fine fellow now

begod we thought

you’d have hung up

your boots long ago boy

 

and molecules blood fluids

all out of sight

plough on

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