WINSTON CHURCHILL’S  PROSTATE

Mum worked as a legal secretary and known throughout the land

for her impressive skills  in the art of SHWPM

That’s the rate of words per minute you can write shorthand 

As a child I’d find Mum’s notes around the home wrote in way I could not understand 

All squiggles and doodles and funny letters weirdly written full stops and ampersand 

She worked in London at the Houses of Parliament 

on an ex Prime Minister’s probate

Winston Churchill no less, my Dad, God bless, 

got slightly confused when at Mum’s wake

It’s really rather funny, the Mick I had to take 

When Dad stood up, and raised his cup,

‘My late dear wife, highlight of her working life, was doing the legal paperwork for Winston Churchill’s prostate’