All Souls Day
I could write a better piece but my Tinnitus is so loud
so this is all you get
The Funeral Mass is the Best One
Lazarus and all that, Jesus wept
and he resurrected his friend
even though the body would have smelt by then
We can all be resurrected
By love, by friends, by events
111177 was the worst day of my life back then
I've had worse since then
but 11 11 77 11th Nov 1977
was my dad's 56th Birthday
I had lost a job
thinks were bleak
I can remember him shaving in the kitchen sink
it's too cold in the bathroom upstairs
He said something would turn up
When God made time, he made plenty of it
6 months on the dole
Nothing
Then I got a job in computers
My Oxford graduate brother said try computers
so I applied for one job
CSB Data Processing, part of StatsMR
1978 that's 46 years ago
then a computer was as big as a washing machine and wardrobe
and you could sleep on top of it
So I remember that always
I was there 21 years all told
Now Pray for your family and friends at this time
All Souls Day and on 11th Nov its Armistice Day
Which is also my Dad's Birthday
So tears and love and laughter every November
he made it to 80 even after his massive heart attack
read Padre Pio and Me for details
I doubt if I'll get that far
But God is Good I might surprise you all
have 6 more kids with an Oriental Speed typist
I look like Picasso with the hat and he had a late family
Or can I hear God laughing
HE is a Depeche Mode fan after all
Enough I need to switch the heating on it's freezing
if I win the lottey I'd move there
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