VJ Day and my Uncle Danny too

 VJ Day and my Uncle Danny too

Various thoughts as Tinnitus overwhelms me

My dad said here in Smethwick where he was in 1944 onwards

The pubs did not close for 2 days

He gor drunk, everybody did

or as that VE day

He was 23 in 1944

He would have gone to USA 

but he had already bought his ticket to England

Aunty Mary in Chicago had sent his money

Meanwhile my mom's brother was in 

the Air Force I think it was in the Far East

rolling barrels of oil around as bombs hit

These are only half memories from 50 years ago

My Uncle Danny he survived

and was on  a troop ship home

and decided it would be a waste of his time

2 years to get demobbed or something

again half a memory from 50 years ago

NOW

he jumped ship and went on the run to Belfast

and got to Boston Mass

not as pretty as Cromane Lower Killorglin Kerry Ireland

but nice enough

Uncle Danny always loved the heat

and took me to the Solarium and Baths by the nudist beach

Boston 1980

He and lots of old men sat naked soaking up the sun

in the solarium

Danny worked for Amtrak in the station

and his son also Dan became a Boston City Cop

so hello to all the Police in Boston if any of you read this

and to a new priest friend i made, who is a Police Chaplain

I won't name him, or he'll never make Bishop

Anyway my Uncle Danny adored the sun

and he and my dad were more like brothers

just as Me and my dad were like brothers

more that Father and Son

And I have a far east connection now myself

Shanghai Birmingham daughters

small one just graduated with a First

it would make my dreams come true

If she became a Writer and Presenter

The rest is up to Cobol Maximus or Bukos Giganticus

my code name for a pair of bookends

or Uncles as the Chinese say

me

I'm just a Gorilla with a Rosary

so what use am I?