The Snowman 030218© TONY FALLON
I remember the big snow of 51
Or was it 52
Everybody was talking about it
Probably was close to an inch
It was Sunday
Paddy Corcoran’s funeral
We kids were alone
Parents gone to the home
So we decided to built a snowman
We started at the top of the garden
By the time we got to the road we had the base
Once more and we had the chest
A little more and we had the head
The previous year we had potatoes
In that garden
So there was a lot of clay
Mixed in the snowman
As the funeral went past
We and the snowman stood at attention
I wish we had a mobile phone
Many in the funeral
Probably wished the same
I’m sure Paddy Beirne will smile
At his memory of the first
Multi racial snowman in Rahara.
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