Thursday, 2 December 2010

My Father is a Certain Kind of Man, December 2010 (Israel)









My father is a certain kind of man.

A few years ago we were in Greece together. He sat on a bench with another man. And they understood each other.

Their Language was their cigarettes,

Their ears grown large with age,

Their noses red from good times and bad times,


What a life we’ve had


Their hands ingrained with dirt from long ago




My father’s a certain kind of man.

And I sometimes wish I was too


(accompanying music: Mrs McGrath: The Sergeant Said)

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