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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=495452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The tony encounter at myrna’s coffee shop</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I really admire him giving me his time <br>For a good coffee at nine <br>Matched with choco-raisin cake </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bespectacled tony <br>Jesuit priest <br>White barong <br>Still slim <br>And walks <br>With counted <br>Composure <br>He looks at me <br>With a eye <br>For a mistake <br>Keen eyes <br>Frisking my soul </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“You’re flourishing” he said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am fat <br>Tall and pumpkin cheeks <br>I can say <br>I have a basketball <br>Inside my <br>Pink polo shirt <br>As gift from an <br>OFW <br>I sip my coffee <br>Sliced my choco cake <br>With a fork <br>And take a <br>Big bite <br>I am flabby <br>After I left <br>The seminary <br>Where we were buddies </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>”you’re strong” I thought. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could not be stopped <br>Asking him: <br>how did you manage to stay as Jesuit? <br>Did you have a lot of struggles? <br>You like the solitude, do you? <br>Do you have a strict routinary prayer? <br>How is you religious life? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How’s your sex life? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“It is a grace, a gift”, he blurted. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We live in poverty <br>All our salaries go to the Jesuit society”. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gave me the sad news <br>About sonny leaving the novitiate <br>Years ago <br>About Roy leaving the priesthood <br>A few months ago, <br>And Fr. Mac pulled out <br>From Arvisu and now <br>Chaplain of the PGH, <br>A sore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“What could be the possible explanation <br>Why priests are leaving? ” <br>“Has the Jesuit society studied the trend <br>And found the explanations? ” I asked him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We are a few now” <br>“We will have a new campaign <br>For vocations” he answers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I will be leaving for a consultors’ meeting <br>Tomorrow for an early flight to manila <br>Then I will be in Davao for another <br>Important meeting. <br>Just his afternoon <br>I met with a benefactor who will give <br>65 dollars a month for our scholars” <br>still tony talking. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I cannot forget, as he cancelled my <br>Room reservation at the Jesuit house <br>As I decided to stay in the hotel instead, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“You saw the light, and we are still blind”, <br>he said with a rush. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was ironic, I know, and I will be thinking <br>About his answer, for nights and years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q>
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For a good coffee at nine 
Matched with choco-raisin cake 

Bespectacled tony 
Jesuit priest 
White barong 
Still slim 
And walks 
With counted 
Composure 
He looks at me 
With a eye 
For a mistake 
Keen eye..."></div>
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