Best Cassock Poems

Limerick : Once a Cossack in tundra cassock

Once a Cossack in tundra cassock
Crept to spy on his wife : got a shock
She lay stooped in prayer
Without a stitch on her
Guess whose head was on the butcher’s block ?

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Cassock dance 

The heaven hangs low today, just above
the spire of the village church, which
is closed since the priest hung himself 
in the vestry.
He drank, you see
lifted his cassock and danced 
lost respect among the parishioners
he had humiliated them
the men in the bar gave him whisky to drink
and...

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A huge room not denied luxury,
The rejected in it: Misery
Of fine glass up to the bookshelf:
If one was close to it saw oneself:
The weight of a thousand Christian Books
And at what the smart owner looks;
Glasses for whisky but no whisky:
To have whisky displayed risky:
"One can't...

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