Mrs C Never Mentions Poem by Francis Duggan

Mrs C never mentions her son John though she loves to brag about her daughter Lee
Who has recently graduated from university with her doctorate degree
She say if I feel proud of my daughter haven't I every right for to be
She physically looks like her father but her intelligence does come from me
Mrs C is a very proud woman who is proud of her pedigree
She says my late dad was a maths professor a doyen of the university
She says if he had survived his cancer he would feel so proud of his granddaughter today
He was not an old man only in his late fifties when his life from him was snatched away
She often meets her friends for a chat in café seabird by the sea
They like her enjoy telling of their family successes as they enjoy their buttered scones and tea
Birds of a feather tend to flock together and each to their own as they say
They pride on their family successes each has their own brag of the day
But Mrs C to her friends never mentions her son John he recently turned twenty three
But for him there was no birthday party he is in jail for larceny.