Marmalade Blues

I told Father (Dad), 

as he dragged the laundry basket behind him, 

that he was in for a treat this morning.

'Toast & Marmalade'

but I also warned him that:

"If you drop marmalade on the table or the carpet, Mother (Mam) will kill you with her bare hands."

"That's Ok, I've had enough"

"Enough of what?"

"Enough of this old life, I'm 96 now,

my father was 61 when he went"

Not the response I had expected, 

"I will do my utmost not to spill marmalade,

I will be careful

not a drop shall fall"

but he thought that the threat was real 

and that Mother (Mam) would see through with the deed. 

I left him to his fate 

and went out to prune the Weigela.

(The above conversation occurred in the Welsh Language)