Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Eulogy
I miss a man
I never met.
You see,
I did not know Tom senior.
I know his son Tommy.
I love Tommy.
So if Tommy is a
“chip-off-the-old-block”,
I would have liked Tom senior.
We would have played poker,
swooshed down a couple of Coors,
smoked a half-way decent cigar,
swapped stories about the
“buckets-of-blood”,
those bars that surrounded the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
We would have enjoyed
each others’ company
So for those of you who loved him
and miss him terribly and
relive memories;
So I, miss him,
not for what was,
but for what could have been.
The Romans had a phrase
for most occasions,
these two fit here:
Resquiescat in pace
(Rest in Peace)
Ave atque vale.
(Hail and Farewell)
TP.
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