CAMPIN' IN CHICAGO by Hilary McRee Flanery (based on my own family life)

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"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy birthin' and I will give you..." "Yours, mine and..." Who cares! From the heartland of America meet the "Fighting-Flanigans", that's Flanigan with one "n" in the first syllable because someone dropped the other "n" in the ocean on the way over from the Sod! Go to read at: http://longskirts.stblogs.com/ Will be putting up a page or two every other day!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

"For many"


LIKE DINNER
ON
WOOD

Saint Joan,
Saint Tim,
Queen Mary
Of Scotts,

Prayed
The true Mass,
So knew
Their true lots.

They could
Have said
"Oh, no,
I shant!"

But they
Were Saints,
No persons,
Pedant.

Not ones
To lord
Their innate
Good -

While being
Prepared like
Dinner
On wood.

Or having
Their eye-lids
Tucked
And nipped,

Even though
Queens,
With kings
They sipped,

No, no -
Accepted
With joy,
No fuss...

"For you, et
Pro multis."
Now, daily,
For us!

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