Edwin Brock
The Life-Style
Nobody interfered. My two uncles stood
close together in the midnight street and
punched each other until one of them
fell. On the edge of the crowd an aunt cried
and asked everyone to stop them, but nobody
interfered. They carried the one who had
fallen into the pub he’d left, and they
revived him with whisky and draught beer;
the other one walked away on the balls of
his feet. Always the family was like this —
at Christmas parties, Christenings and
similar occasions; it was, I suppose, the
Irish streak. On the other hand, it may
have been that, in that overheated kitchen
of my grandparents, I could find no love —
only envy and ingratitude. Often I am afraid:
most of the anger filtered through into
my parents’ home, where I could find no
love. Now, in an overheated kitchen of my
own, I watch my wife and my own children.
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