Mary Catherine's Ash Wednesday Journal Entry

TV, Pepsi, Oreo Ice cream
 Cuss words, nail biting
 Back talk and fighting
 This list was my profusion
 Of New Year's resolutions
 But failing that attempt
 I'll give them up for Lent
 Easter's just around the bend
 Once again it is Lent
 And my face is smeared with ashes
 Either I will run away or I'll stay
 And sit through
 Another hundred million masses
 Friday dinner is less than festive
 My mom tries hard to be creative
 It's always topped with things
 Like crispy onion strings
 As if her kids won't know
 It's tuna casserole
 I have always tried real hard
 To keep on pretending
 My family's normal but it's not
 My little brother is in the yard
 He's out there reenacting
 All the stations of the cross
 And when he falls the second time
 My dad marches out there
 And drags my brother back inside
 And my best friend Brittney
 Looks on then turns to me
 She says, Ohmigod Mary Catherine
 I'm so glad I'm Unitarian
 I have always tried real hard
 To keep on pretending
 My family's normal but it's not
 My little brother is in the yard
 He's out there reenacting
 All the stations of the cross
 And when he falls the second time
 My dad marches out there
 And drags my brother back inside
 And my best friend Brittney
 Looks on then turns to me
 She says, Ohmigod Mary Catherine
 I'm so glad I'm Unitarian