three hail marys

sometimes your sarcasm
gets the best of you.
after telling the priest
for over an hour
all of your sins, he
whispers through the
meshed screen,
say three hail marys
and go and sin no more.
what?
you say, what?
you think that will
do it. three hail marys?
were you even
listening to me,
hello. you rap
on the window
with your knuckles.
god will forgive me
with that? geez,
I didn't know it was
so easy. did you even
hear half of the stuff
I've done, what I've
been thinking lately
about the rockettes?
but he doesn't answer
back. there is stone
silence. yo, you
still in there father
o malley? yeah, I'm
here. I'm waiting for
you to go away.