Dad and Roy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Humor / September 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad and Roy were the best of friends
they drank and fought and played
and laughed like nobody laughed
for fifty years and more

Dad had a room in the nursing home
way down at the end of the hall
When Roy was admitted as well
a nurse wheeled him down that hall

They sat footrest to footrest
then Roy said "So it's come to this"
and they both had a hell of a laugh

Dad died in late December
Roy lasted three months more
They were buried twenty feet apart
in the prairie town where they played

I can see them there now
sitting on their shiny new stones
having a smoke and a chew
and a good pull on a forty of rye

Roy says "So it's come to this"
and they both have a hell of a laugh

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1 thoughts on “Dad and Roy”

Gerri Aiudi September 21, 2024 at 8:34 am

great poem … love it

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