Christina Mirabilis

Christina the Astonishing Lived a long time ago She was stricken with a seizure At the age of twenty-two They took her body in a coffin To a tiny church in Liége Where she sprang up from the coffin Just after the Agnus Dei She soared up to the rafters Perched on a beam up there Cried, "The stink of human sin Is more than I can bear" Christina the Astonishing Was the most astonishing of all She prayed balanced on a hurdle Or curled up into a ball She fled to remote places Climbed towers and trees and walls To escape the stench of human corruption Into an oven she did crawl Christina the Astonishing Behaved in a terrifying manner Died at the age of seventy-four In the convent of St. Anna

Nick Cave

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