Not My Type (Kerry Babies case - 1984) From Cahersiveen strand Baby drifts to limbo where Éireann’s sin-stained bastards go. Eighty kilometres north pointy fingers slitty eyes spy trollop’s extramarital frolics romping willingly with a wedded man. ‘She’s not the full Catholic shilling’ Bless the father’s it’s been that long since the falsified confession. Garda explanation ‘heteropaternal superfecundation’ Offer penance - Baby A twenty-eight stabs Baby O interred in plastic shroud Found by out-house, death indeterminate. God is gracious Baby John Pedigree to eternal nonentity cast. Illegitimates and adulteresses spat out holy steam rubbed in wounds washed down by the constabulary with the blood of Christ. Róisín Bugler
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