J - Derek Senn

I started the day leafing through the paper

There were the usual killings births engagements obituaries

A story on malfeasance

Work was forgetful I drove home like that prick

That gotta get there quick price

And I feel funereal while my kids laugh and play

My mom buried her brother today

She's the oldest one

I'm a only son

The brother meals got killed the nine

Her mom my grandma

Never saw forty five

Never saw forty five

And you were the oldest boy

She name him J my mom

Buried her brother today

And his laugh it was a sardonic chuckle

And his wit his wit tinder dry

He had a wood shop

He made cool sh*t and had a spirit

DIY DIY DIY

DIY

Dallas Texas eleven seven twenty fourteen clear skies rolling hills

Grass manicured and green

I wasn't in attendance that's what they say

You're helpless two time zones away

My kid sister's wedding was the last time I saw J

And we had quite a time my wife got hair extensions

Just to mark the occasion those Bo Derek braids

Some years later that union imploded

Some years late J fell ill

And his wife frosty cared for him through those last days of his life

Of his life

Of his life

Of his life