SOME THINGS WE MIGHT HAVE DISCUSSED

When you left school at ten, Grandpa,
What was your first job?
Your mother -- what did she call you?
Were you with your young wife
When she slipped on an icy stair
Then died bearing your daughter?
Was it returning from her grave
That you first set your watch
A few minutes fast? How surprised
Doom's henchman must have been
When next he leapt from the shadows
To find you five minutes away!