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The Girls of St. Magdalene's Parish

from Adelaide by Bad Luck City

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It was lovely but spooky that cold night she took me by my frozen fingers and trembling hand | it was the end of October; I was young and still sober, I hadn’t yet read any Brendan Behan | while in only my twelfth year, a scandalous, hell-year, I fought against everything I had become | she invited me by telephone, her father would chaperone
And my childhood would die at the taste of her tongue | she was dressed as the ghost of Marie Antoinette with ribbons for blood tied around her pale neck | and there, in the dungeon, by the laundry machine, we kissed, I the zombie, and she my dead queen | it was lovely, albeit nightmarish, designed by the girls of St. Magdalene’s parish |
with penchants for corsets and porcelain slaughters, the fairest of all the archdiocese’s daughters | horrifying and stinking of sweat, just the Ten Plagues and me and my sweet Antoinette | while desperate lips sealed a host of offenses, we fondled away our doomed adolescence |

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from Adelaide, released February 29, 2008

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