In Memoriam: Shadows from the Spirit World & Angels and Demons; entry 2

In this next section that I have read over in my book Tim writes about several people who he knew when he was in school who have passed on to the spirit world. Which makes sense that he wrote about this topic next, because at the end of the last section is when he was realizing how many people have made their journey to the spirit world. The first people he wrote about is Dillinger and Capone, two nice guys with gangster nicknmes, and Pete Cummings. Pete is the boy he ran away from the school with one day, they knew each other from playing together at Rapid Creek in the summertime. The next person is Agnes Yellow Boy, from Calico, she is a lady who was worried about the conditions of the reservation for future generations; Tim referred to her as a good representation of stron Lakota women, who were the backbone of the tribe back in the day and continue to be because they're so caring. There is a poem called "Reguiems and Regrets" where Tim names off alot of his old classmates, and how they happened to die. There is another poem i thought was interesting its titled "The Graveyard" (i thought it was funny that he has a poem in here about the graveyard at Red Cloud because everyone else had mentioned a graveyard at their boarding school) in the poem there is a part that says something about the red granite tombstone. It lies flat on its face and weighs about 400 pounds, it always falls over no matter how many times the priest would set it back up, and when a thunderstorm comes over there is an outline of Satan's face. Apparently the face always gets chiseled away but it reappears again. "Sounds impossible, doesnt it? But I've seen the stone, as have hundred of Mission kids before and after me and none of us can explain it, we only accept it."



Sister Evil, Who Wasn't; a poem about the school nurse, her name was Sister Ivo. Dr. McNeil was a white man who lived outside of Kyle, SD at Three Mile Creek, where Tim spent his summers. Albert Rokey, a maintenance man who sexually assulted some of the girls between the ages of 9 & 12. Father "Eddie Boy" Edward was the principle of the Mission after World War II. Tim wrote about when the boys found a dog and tried to keep it in a culvert, and again when they found a kitten they tried to keep it in the outhouse. Each attempts at trying to keep a pet was frivilous, because each time Father Edward found the pet and killed it; he shot the dog and threw the kitten into a tree, smashing its head. In the poem about Father Edward titled "Eddie Boy" it mentions how he used a braided whip he called "The Cat" and he would say 'assume the position' where the boys would grab their ankles. The last line of the poem reads, "How could a priest be so cruel?"