Alison Cassidy - Gentleman Jim

James Gwyther
Eighty years old
Fiercely Welsh
Aggressively deaf.

Thin leather face
Rippled like sand
Grandfather beard
Cowcatcher dentures.

Deep ocker voice
Exceptionally loud
Belligerently proud
Passionately Masonic.

Jim lost his wife
a few years ago
to ovarian cancer
Never got over it.

On Christmas day
he stays at home
with Maeve, his staffy
and a good bottle of malt.

Alison Cassidy

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