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Drinking on the job
Father O’Riely and father O’Brien
Father O’Brien!
Yes father O’Riely!
Did you hear that we’re not suppose to have the alter boys come back after mass to join us in the chapel.
O why’s that father O’Riely!?
Well apparently one of the children got stuck into father O’Patric’s alter wine and he went home drunk. His parents kicked up an awful din.
O When are those kids going to learn!
it’s “do as we say, / not as we do!”
© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on November 29, 2006