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Cameron, Norman - When you confess your sins before a parson
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Norman Cameron – Collected Poems
When you confess your sins before a parson
You find it no great effort to disclose
Your crimes of murder, bigamy and arson
But can you tell him that you pick your nose?
If after death you pay for your misdeeds
Surely the direst and most just requital
Would be to listen while an angel reads
Before a crowd your endless mean recital
Golf scorecards faked, thefts from your mother’s purse
But why should Doomsday bother with such stuff?
This is the hell that you already nurse
Within you. You’ve had punishment enough