when he was a boy High Latin was
served at Sunday Catholic Masses
freaking mystical had he known the word at the time
he accompanied his grandmother to
church sucker
he didnt critically think through that
missed Flash Gordon serials airing those mornings on television frankly to a boy that ought to have been grounds
for sainthood particularly when he later
learned a man a Grand Inquisitor who lorded over tortures executions of heretics chronicling each and every victim maintaining
lists of families and extended friendships he was canonised a saint
Dammit
Church suddenly wasnt worth the milk and homemade
cookies he enjoyed afterwards
just didnt think it through
then he was a boy
though the experiences were mesmerising
between
his grandmother whos native tongue was Polishwho managed broken English and
Latin and from the altar and from the sober adults their choreographed brisk stand ups sit downs on
your knees chants hymns chubby hymnals all the proverbial RahRahs Go Team Go he was rightfully awed by the strange
nonsensical sounds emanating from adults throats
that and they the humongous Christ crucified hanging
behind the celebrant maybe
He didnt learn his lessons either corporal punishment was a thing in Chicago
schools and to his fertile imagination there
wasnt much of a leap between ruthless cracks on the knuckles times when he pulled his hand away in
the nick of time and went to laugh he was cracked across the face with a wooden yardstickYAH there wasnt a leap between cracked knuckles spankings
dunce caps and crucifixions
NONE
ZIP
but he grew up
his sainted grandmother died she was a peach plus
then he caught wind of Vulgar
Latin from
vulgaris from vulgus common people maybejust maybe had Vulgar Latin been used to celebrate Mass
an orgy or two might have broken out in the pews
maybe that was a kind of church which might have allured
him
when he was young churches were
left unlocked at night
he couldnt count the
times during winter he took girls inside to make out it was warmer
he notched up degrees
only got caught once
didnt know the young outraged
priest
might have been a good thing
“Now turn to your neighbour
and extend a sign of piece.” Pax tecum Piece be with you
Yeah
baby yeah!!!
Momma
didnt raise no prude
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16 4. 22
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