Does fear help with learning?

 

 

The nuns at my school were over minatory

Having been refined at a non -loving Seminary

Does fear help with learning,

Or keep hell’s coals burning?

Or should we have been fried up in the crematory?

 

 

I believe I did experience   hell

In the convent school,we could not tell.

I  became almost mute

After many rebukes.

I’d have preferred to be locked in a cell

 

I was puzzled by their  incendiary ways

As I walked round the school in a daze.

I never showed off

And tried to be tough.

But my heart was  bleeding sadly  each day,

 

So later I decided to abandon

The “holy religion “they had rammed in.

I’m an atheist,sweet Jesu,

Though I have seen  God  through you.

I’m a mystic, narcissistic  wit with a tandem

 

Yes,I ride on thar seat at the back

Carrying all this stuff  in a sack.

God rides in front

Well.he will and he won’t.

I fell off and now I am black.

 

Luckily, I am a racist parvenu.

I tried to learn anti-semitism in the zoo

The lions were the Jews

And they  loved me till bemused.

So now I can tolerate all of  YOU.

 

I tried to hate  brown skinned men

But it seemed so unnatural  now and then.

For  men  are so handsome

I’d pay a king’s ransom

If they let me just pick up about  ten.

 

I see now my  poetry’s very poor

No ethics,no rules,so impure.

But that is like life.

Throw in a little strife.

Without sinning, how could we endure?