Jeanne d’Arc’s Last Night On Earth
Don Hargraves
After weeks of torture and being preached to,
I confessed to certain crimes against the Holy Church.
So desperate were they for my words of confession
that they offered freedom and mercy for my words --
all I had to do was wear a dress as my sign of repentance,
and even here my jailers worked to accommodate me:
the five English dogs were replaced by Vatican guards
afraid to touch me for fear of excommunication.
But that night Jesus came to me with slacks in hand
and said “Tomorrow you shall be with me in Paradise.”
