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So the world doesn't stop
when you get cancer, sadly.

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So there were a bunch of
interesting revelations

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that happened
recently in my family.

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My sister is a genealogist,
and she found out

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that my grandfather
who was a suicide, he

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died many years before I
was born, was a criminal.

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We always been told that
he was a stockbroker.

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But, in fact, he was
not brokering stocks,

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he was spending most
of his adult life,

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short though it was, in the
Indiana State Penitentiary.

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So when I found that out I had
to write a poem about that.

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So Requiem With Eye Roll.

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It's about my grandfather.

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No minister mild of manner,
moon faced over his tab color

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my grandfather.

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Rather, a gambler.

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An embezzler.

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A loan shark.

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A con man.

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A womanizer, booze
breathed and both feet

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on the gas of whatever
jalopy got left unlocked.

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He even borrowed the gun he shot
himself with, the smart ass.

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Of course, he conked
it in a cornfield

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in Winchester, Indiana
so that joke was on him.

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Oblivion.

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How's that for a punch line.

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