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Last Rites

When you have
an hour to live

what matters then 
is Christ in a pyx

in the vest pocket
of an old priest

called at midnight
by a nurse

who drives miles
through sleet 

and finds your room 
in the hospital


Donal Mahoney

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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