All Souls Day

 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