Mum's Affliction

Mum was alway sharp of eye

if you had to thread a camel

she was the guy.

She could shoot but she could not kill

And to see her strike a golf ball

was to all who saw a thrill.

She could sing like a bird

and if you liked a limerick

no matter how absurd

she always had the right last word.

, But now she's blind

and she 's lost this world

and what the fuck is she doing?

She's talking to her friends

and though she's quite bereft

in quiet moments she says to herself

Thank fucking Christ I 'm not deaf.