Patsy's Surprise at Thirteen
Girls steeped in blackberry winters
like decorous snow women smiling
from frozen firs
Proper girls, obedient, asexual
groomed from girlhood for
matrimony; docile and compliant
populate Our Lady of Lourdes
school yard amongst the sisters-
stern-faced penguin women,
pallid creatures of the cloth,
doling discipline and dogma,
mathematics and music.
"Where are the boys?" Patsy asks
on enrollment day. "It's an all-
girls school dear", Pop said.
"OMG, I think I'm gonna die!!"
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