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Fridays are for Fish, Confessions and Coffee



In any order,

she will pluck bones
from sea trout, cover it in lemon juice
a few slices of red onion, wrap in tin foil, bake
- done.


To be an honourary catholic
guilt is carried as a scapular depicted saint

around her neck, and she lashes her back
fifty times or so:

be good

be nice

don't swear or talk dirty
- done.

She never liked the Priest at St Christopher's.

He always smelled of rotten cheese

bad socks 

communion wine.

Eyeing the Protestant girls -

must have wondered what colour their gleaming panties were.

We didn't feel

the need

to confess but

urge-to-flirt

- done.

Coffee spurts hot steam
the kitchen window smears a shadow,
outside the cats are mewling

bloody noisy things, she is reminded

that Friday's carry genuflecting angels

like the skin

of the fish and the scales

that measure the minute details

of feathers

flustered thoughts

and how to lie

till next Friday

 

or what happens Saturday?

-  to do.



 

 

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  • IronIcecream
    February 23, 2008
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    oh Saturday
    a derby between United and City
    and Sunday
    you go and confess to the referee
    about the price of cheese
    chips and fish

    he'l give you an yellow card
    unless it's red



    • NurseChilly gold member
      February 23, 2008
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      hehehheh

      well City won the other week, but yes hun... the price of fish and chips is mightly important but the mushy peas too and of course - up 'ere in North like, it's bout the gravy too...

      innit....


      • IronIcecream
        February 23, 2008

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        almost forgot bout gravy
        gravy it's a must when squizing stuff

        if not gravy (else not obvious);
        end.


  • Namita
    February 22, 2008
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    - love these day thingies -

    gorgeous


  • Wandika gold member
    February 22, 2008

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    Saturday

    You can sin and Sunday confess making all right with the world again.
    Excellent imagery and I enjoyed as always the read.


    • NurseChilly gold member
      February 23, 2008
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      thank you Jim, nice to see you around these parts again...

      hope you're well my friend...

  • Yvette Champ gold member
    February 22, 2008

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    Oh my, what joy, here I am on a Friday evening and I haven't thought TFIF yet and now I think it. Love the title, the poetry and the comments. A veritable feast for the body and soul. 'Tis was the book that Frank McCourt wrote after Angela's Ashes. I cried when he wrote that he ordered a plain drab cheap funeral for his Mam when she died because she was a plain drab woman in life.
    I digress ( as usual! )
    The write is outstanding, well written, sights, smells vivid, emotion is keenly felt and the naturalness of delivery is light even though there is so much depth within the piece.
    I watched Blue Peter so shall attempt an Honourary Badge for the poetess who didn't wear regulation navy blue knickers lmao.
    NB A great movie re Catholicism, a tear jerker of a true story and part of history made ( also stars Pierce Brosnan! ) is Evelyn, I guarantee you will be moved by it.
    Enough of my rambling
    Bravo-licious poetry!


    • NurseChilly gold member
      February 23, 2008
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      OOHH GAWDDD. .. those horrible horrible gabadine knickers... sheesh, itchy scratchy things.. lmao

      what a giggle you gave me


  • Cat
    February 22, 2008
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    i open up to you and i get a fishy cat poem back...

    hmmmmm

    i love this piece!!!

  • Suzanne Dia
    February 22, 2008

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    heyyy

    outta my head!

    lol

    ahem, this is really good, gilly.

    Both of the McCourt's were good... I loved A Monk Swimming (amongst women )


  • ca ne fait rien
    February 22, 2008

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    That's posh fish to have on Friday missus. Well it is Lent. And Friday is for Confession. This actually also reminds me of 'Angela's Ashes'.



    • NurseChilly gold member
      February 22, 2008
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      ahh now.. we have Frank McCourt.. with his fabulous books..

      I love love love Angela's Ashes... the damned sinking rainsodden house and the peeing beds and potties...


      • ca ne fait rien
        February 22, 2008
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        Well we inadvertantly made conection between the Irish humourists and the Liverpool Beat poets lololol.
        "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% of how we respond to it"


        • NurseChilly gold member
          February 22, 2008
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          well the link is as strong today as it was back then... the Liverpool docks and the navvies..

          I love that quote luv... innit


  • ArtFullyMe silver member
    February 22, 2008
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    be a good little Catholic, and eat your fish on Friday...

    Every time I have fish on a Friday I laugh, because my mind still hears that chant. I being a fully baptized Catholic.. my middle name [ Anne ] my baptismal name..
    I think I've confessed only once in my life, I was thrown out of cadicism, and I never made confirmation ...
    tsk.. yet the rules still wander through my mind shaking their bony white finger saying ...tsk you mustn't!

    of course the saying goes.. give the church a child and it will have them for life.. ( so much truer than one might think )

    feel free to smack me upside the head for this one..
    but .. the day Catholicism dies will be the day I truly rejoice..


    • NurseChilly gold member
      February 22, 2008
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      I'm not Catholic... but a Methodist.. but I do carry guilt around like a good catholic.. lmao.. I do feel an honourary badge should be worn by women on a mission... roflmao

      and yes I agree with ya girl.. there's alot to be answered by certain religions, all the name of love, peace and war.......

      • ArtFullyMe silver member
        February 22, 2008
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        all in the name of 'god' ...and 'power' the rest is just superfluous


        • NurseChilly gold member
          February 22, 2008
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          shall we have an amen with that... or two sugars and fill the cup to the top please

          ....

          I think faith lives within us as humans, and we don't need to be told where to go to find god

          as a comediene used to say over here, Dave Allen - RIP... May your God go with you, Goodnight.


          • ArtFullyMe silver member
            February 22, 2008

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            lol ... yes..

            I think faith is a complication of the hope inherent in us all. Some of us need god, some of us don't. I know for me, there's no comfort in what cannot be seen. Ah but then, I border on far more close to faithless than anything else...

            and I agree may your God go with you, or whatever else floats your boat, as long as you don't attempt to sink mine ..

            live and let live ..

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