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Listen To Me Son

John D Robinson

Back in the day there were regular
poetry readings in the back-bar of
‘The Pig In Paradise’
and I became a part of
the junkies and drinkers
and artists and poets and
wasters and dreamers and
burnt-out hippies and one
night my proud drunken
old man came to see his
son read and he witnessed
the obligatory and polite
applause and the nods of
the heads and whispers
of bullshit
and then he shuffled
onto the stage and
slurred a sexy dirty-ditty
and I witnessed a reaction
I had never seen or
heard;
voices were raised in
protest; boos and hisses were
heavy; beer bottles were
thrown: I ushered my father
off stage to safety and we
were both laughing hard and I
realized that he’s delivered
something that was seen
as unacceptable, a punch to
the face of decency; seen to
be way
below the sterile stagnant
standards
and all without a sense
of humour;
and on this very rare
occasion , my father
became
my teacher
and
my hero.

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