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  • My father had a Randall knife
  • My mother gave it to him
  • When he went off to WWII
  • To save us all from ruin
  • If you've ever held a Randall knife
  • Then you know my father well
  • If a better blade was ever made
  • It was probably forged in hell
  • My father was a good man
  • A lawyer by his trade
  • And only once did I ever see
  • Him misuse the blade
  • It almost cut his thumb off
  • When he took it for a tool
  • The knife was made for darker things
  • And you could not bend the rules
  • He let me take it camping once
  • On a Boy Scout jamboree
  • And I broke a half an inch off
  • Trying to stick it in a tree
  • I hid it from him for a while
  • But the knife and he were one
  • He put it in his bottom drawer
  • Without a hard word one
  • There it slept and there it stayed
  • For twenty some odd years
  • Sort of like Excalibur
  • Except waiting for a tear
  • My father died when I was forty
  • And I couldn't find a way to cry
  • Not because I didn't love him
  • Not because he didn't try
  • I'd cried for every lesser thing
  • Whiskey, pain and beauty
  • But he deserved a better tear
  • And I was not quite ready
  • So we took his ashed out to sea
  • And poured `em off the stern
  • And threw the roses in the wake
  • Of everything we'd learned
  • When we got back to the house
  • They asked me what I wanted
  • Not the lawbooks not the watch
  • I need the things he's haunted
  • My hand burned for the Randall knife
  • There in the bottom drawer
  • And I found a tear for my father's life
  • And all that it stood for

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