The Great Escape

Cherry

By luigi_pagano

Thu, 13 Dec 2018
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There is a convent
which nuns inhabit
where two of them
acquired a bad habit.
As the treasury had
a considerable sum
the sisters decided
they would get some.
They leapt about
in a playful gambol
took five-hundred K
to travel and gamble.
For this piteous pair
the future looked bleak
but by avoiding jail
they had a lucky streak.

© Luigi Pagano 2018

First published on Poetry24

 

Certificate U
Poem
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Humour

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

 

I pictured a scene of these two nuns driving off into the sunset in high spirits, car loaded up with cases full of money.

Nice one Luigi. yes

Jenny. xx

 

 

 

 

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Quite so Jenny and shouting with glee: "Las Vegas, here we come!"

Luigi xx

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi Luigi,

This brought to mind that film 'Nuns on the run' where Robbie Coultrane dresses in a nun's habit. This poem was as much fun. Nicely done !!!

Hilary      laugh

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Thanks, Hilary. I remember that film well.
It confirms Mark Twain's quote that fact is stranger than fiction.

Cheers, Luigi

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Saw this in the papers the other day. What happens in Vegas etc etc - except for nuns who steal the funds to get there we now know!

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

They should have remembered their Bible: "Lead us not into temptation" (Matthew 6.13) but they listened instead to Oscar Wilde who  famously said "I can resist anything but temptation".
Anyway they got their just deserts as they wasted the whole loot.

Thanks for those juicy cherries, Claudine.

Luigi x

 

 

 

 

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Blimey... my late kindergarden teacher, Mother Imelda, would be turning in her grave.

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Here is one case of monastic misbehaviour that their convent would rather have drawn a veil over it, Mick .The kind of aberration that would make Mother Imelda turn in her grave.