11-03-2010, 09:07 AM
trees, something, relax, old, written, trick, castles, die, year, new
We never had a Christmas tree
though dad fooled us with a dead branch
one year; how we larfed when we saw it.
Dad died in the January,
old age they said.
empty booze bottles told us something different
he was 42, I think it was a trick to console us.
Now if they'd said his liver died of old age?
I found the written note he'd left behind,
it said:
1 bottle of Smirnoff.
1/2 bottle of johnny Walker.
8 Heineken's
2 pkt's jaffa cakes.
he said the jaffa cakes helped him relax:
I carry it still.
Each year me and my kids build
a castle with jaffa cake pkt's
at the base of the fir tree,
and I tell them all about their granddad.
On New years morning, after Santa had been
we'd sit and eat the castle walls.
We never had a Christmas tree
though dad fooled us with a dead branch
one year; how we larfed when we saw it.
Dad died in the January,
old age they said.
empty booze bottles told us something different
he was 42, I think it was a trick to console us.
Now if they'd said his liver died of old age?
I found the written note he'd left behind,
it said:
1 bottle of Smirnoff.
1/2 bottle of johnny Walker.
8 Heineken's
2 pkt's jaffa cakes.
he said the jaffa cakes helped him relax:
I carry it still.
Each year me and my kids build
a castle with jaffa cake pkt's
at the base of the fir tree,
and I tell them all about their granddad.
On New years morning, after Santa had been
we'd sit and eat the castle walls.