Joe Will Tell You Poem by Francis Duggan

Joe will tell you all is well in his life
Kate to me a loving and devoted wife
Our beautiful daughters of twenty and nineteen
Are working in good jobs Jo Ann and Irene
He works hard for a livelihood a bricklayer by trade
Easy money in such a job not to be made
Perhaps twenty years past his physical prime
He does not seem one who is wearied by time
Every morning before work he goes for a jog
Ten times around the park with Jack his black kelpie dog
On Saturday he goes to the football to support the local club
And after the game a few beers with his mates in the pub
But Joe will tell you there's more to life than beer and football
And he is content with his lot over-all.