Sunday, December 20, 2020

And He Liked Really Cool Cars - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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And He Liked Really Cool Cars

 

For George Ebarb

 

Of happy memory

 

Who served God, his family, prisoners,

And all who were blessed in knowing him

With unfailing love and generosity

 

(And he liked really cool cars!)

 

A convention is to say that when we die

God will not ask us about the cars we drove

But we may hope and pray that in George’s case

A happy exception was made for him

 

 

George was my mentor in prison volunteer service. I didn’t know he was a rich man, for he wore his wealthy lightly, and I didn’t know he gave much of his wealth away, for he was also rich, as Chaucer says of the Parsoun, in “hooly thought and werk.”

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