The Nun's Dilemma.
"You can see exactly what a teaser it is for the nuns, angel, can't you? in their sisterly deliberations.?. " My husband blows out vapour from his E cigarette thoughtfully. ""Like will we pay the full whack ? as REQUESTED by the government? to" compensate" the Magdalene women?. Like what will we get away with here? I mean what can they stick us with sisters? Oh it's a fine calculation indeed and indeed separating the wheat from the chaff, I mean, on the one hand there are those that can prove it, nail down the long years of slavery in the laundries in a court of law. And then there are the others. The raggedy people, sisters, the dispossessed, the fallen, the unwanted, unclaimed, illiterate, broken, so they were. So who would doubt that such people would seek to filch the cash from us, sisters, traduce us, sisters. Who would credit their shaky testimonies in a court of law?.The law is an ass sisters. Government's a pushover. Enda Kenny's a wuss. We say no! We can't pay, we won't pay. AND, also, and in addition, and besides, we are elderly, infirm, sisters. God bless us and save us and gather us in..
I dare say he will soon enough, and congratulate them too for all the no account women they helped to break, dispossess,. And how particularly impressed he will be that they held on to the cash they made on the backs of the raggedy people too, even in their elderly frailty. Oh, and you can indeed take it with you, dear heart. We were all misinformed.
Minister Rabitte's Dilemma.
"As if the poor man did not have enough real issues to wrestle to the floor, he must now have an policy on internet porn. I mean one feels for him, darling, one does". My husband has disappeared behind a cloud of e vapour now. "But never mind. He has decided. Censorship is not the answer, an Opt In requirement from internet providers not appropriate, no. Never mind brave David Cameron in the UK and the outpourings of parental fear and loathing for the toxic muck children are captive audience to. Never mind the hardcore porn twinkling across our computer screens to stun and entrap, never mind that it dances in on quite unrelated searches, never mind that children are the most active and constant users on the internet., never mind that parents are engaged in a desperate struggle to contain internet use. After all its not like drug pushers is it, minister, giving out free stuff to schoolchildren, to hook and enslave.Oh no. Not. Never mind that your daughters and mine, minister, must fight off the young male predators made and unleashed, with a self image cunningly planted of sex object and slave to damn them in a loosing battle. Never mind that or the damage beyond mending , minister. Never mind, never mind..
Fugitive time.
The summer school holidays dwindle, sucked down times' sink hole, and the autumn term is nearly on us. .The Boss phones me from the Gaeltacht, where she learns to babble in her native tongue, breathless and brimming with stories of FUN times. Games on the beach, boys, singsongs, boys, ceilis, boys. The Irish classes the only fly in her ointment, but never mind 'cos its great, and she loves it, and there's like two whole more weeks, and she's gotta go now or she'll be late for the FUN. The boy sends me photos of the latest fine salmon he's hooked, in heroic encounter between himself and fish. The unlikely sun graced fishing days merge into one another and there are many many still to catch. I ask the beautiful girl if she's not bored in her summer spent sitting on the grass in the park with her familiars, tossing out drawling ironies, casting ambiguous pearls before lounging grinning boys. Soon to be over, I tell her, and she back to school. She looks at me puzzled, tells me " No, not bored, not over, there's ages, there's heaps of the holidays left. I shut up and watch Autumn come roaring in behind her, with Christmas after it, and hot on it's heels, University, ecstasy, agony, accountability, taxes, death..
"You can see exactly what a teaser it is for the nuns, angel, can't you? in their sisterly deliberations.?. " My husband blows out vapour from his E cigarette thoughtfully. ""Like will we pay the full whack ? as REQUESTED by the government? to" compensate" the Magdalene women?. Like what will we get away with here? I mean what can they stick us with sisters? Oh it's a fine calculation indeed and indeed separating the wheat from the chaff, I mean, on the one hand there are those that can prove it, nail down the long years of slavery in the laundries in a court of law. And then there are the others. The raggedy people, sisters, the dispossessed, the fallen, the unwanted, unclaimed, illiterate, broken, so they were. So who would doubt that such people would seek to filch the cash from us, sisters, traduce us, sisters. Who would credit their shaky testimonies in a court of law?.The law is an ass sisters. Government's a pushover. Enda Kenny's a wuss. We say no! We can't pay, we won't pay. AND, also, and in addition, and besides, we are elderly, infirm, sisters. God bless us and save us and gather us in..
I dare say he will soon enough, and congratulate them too for all the no account women they helped to break, dispossess,. And how particularly impressed he will be that they held on to the cash they made on the backs of the raggedy people too, even in their elderly frailty. Oh, and you can indeed take it with you, dear heart. We were all misinformed.
Minister Rabitte's Dilemma.
"As if the poor man did not have enough real issues to wrestle to the floor, he must now have an policy on internet porn. I mean one feels for him, darling, one does". My husband has disappeared behind a cloud of e vapour now. "But never mind. He has decided. Censorship is not the answer, an Opt In requirement from internet providers not appropriate, no. Never mind brave David Cameron in the UK and the outpourings of parental fear and loathing for the toxic muck children are captive audience to. Never mind the hardcore porn twinkling across our computer screens to stun and entrap, never mind that it dances in on quite unrelated searches, never mind that children are the most active and constant users on the internet., never mind that parents are engaged in a desperate struggle to contain internet use. After all its not like drug pushers is it, minister, giving out free stuff to schoolchildren, to hook and enslave.Oh no. Not. Never mind that your daughters and mine, minister, must fight off the young male predators made and unleashed, with a self image cunningly planted of sex object and slave to damn them in a loosing battle. Never mind that or the damage beyond mending , minister. Never mind, never mind..
Fugitive time.
The summer school holidays dwindle, sucked down times' sink hole, and the autumn term is nearly on us. .The Boss phones me from the Gaeltacht, where she learns to babble in her native tongue, breathless and brimming with stories of FUN times. Games on the beach, boys, singsongs, boys, ceilis, boys. The Irish classes the only fly in her ointment, but never mind 'cos its great, and she loves it, and there's like two whole more weeks, and she's gotta go now or she'll be late for the FUN. The boy sends me photos of the latest fine salmon he's hooked, in heroic encounter between himself and fish. The unlikely sun graced fishing days merge into one another and there are many many still to catch. I ask the beautiful girl if she's not bored in her summer spent sitting on the grass in the park with her familiars, tossing out drawling ironies, casting ambiguous pearls before lounging grinning boys. Soon to be over, I tell her, and she back to school. She looks at me puzzled, tells me " No, not bored, not over, there's ages, there's heaps of the holidays left. I shut up and watch Autumn come roaring in behind her, with Christmas after it, and hot on it's heels, University, ecstasy, agony, accountability, taxes, death..
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