Well, Hey, Prison, Right?
When, with the chalice in his hands, the priest came to the
words ‘…receive me, O Lord, even as the robber’, nearly all the convicts fell
kneeling to the ground with a jangling of fetters…
-Dostoyevsky, The House of the
Dead
The first-period were
really bad today
But, hey, prison, right?
The second-period were
really good today
And, hey, prison, right?
After class a man arrived
solo for Mass
And knelt before the Altar
that isn’t there
The chaplains asked him if
had been to supper
“No, but I’m not going to
miss Mass.”
The man would not leave
for his supper
Until the chaplains
promised him again
That Mass would not begin
without him
And it was so
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