Like my father, your grandfather used to say, policeman and priests should never die.

Tha woudnt work Think of a Chicago cops pension

                                                      Thad go bust   Do priests have pensions

Why we talkinbout this

   You brought up my father.

Yes  I bring Grampa up because you rarely talk about him or Gramma   or Uncle Don

What’s to bring up?

Memories

            Theyre gone  You must have memories good memories

I don’t like to think of them.

Really

No.  I don’t like to think of them.

   Heartache because theyre not here

Son, please, there he goes hes rarely Joe typically son I do not like to think about the past. It’s gone. There’s nothing to be done.

Im not talkin done

                       Im talkin remembering  I think you like to think that Ill think of youtalk of you

You will, but that’s you. Ya got an iron beartrap for a brain, snaps shut, nothing escap . . 

. . Unless it gnaws its leg off

Yes. Grim.  But that.

                         Your mother was like that.

Until she wasnt

Yes.  Until she couldn’t.

Yes  Youre correct

                       Excuse me

Son, you obviously enjoy remembering. I don’t. 

                                                   I think of things ahead of me, not behind me.  I go forward.

I go forward

You do.

         And I often wonder what will happen when the time comes that you can’t carry everything you have forward.

I think you know

I don’t.

Ill die

       I aint no cop or priest

1510,  day-between-2-Ts,  21  2. 24

1214,  Reggaefriday,  23  2. 24

Blood, Sweat & Tears  And When I Die  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ELQyfJ-yk