Translation

Get the get out of here my father said to men and women he wanted gone from his world By his world I mean the beer and wine he built and ran in Detroit And by beer and wine I mean the convenience store he wanted to call Father & Son but went with Beer & Wine which is also the prison he made for himself Get the get out of here he told the kids with not enough money and the men buying quarts and forties before and after their shifts at the factory and the women who came to complain to him about their men Get the get out of here he said to them and by that he meant Get the fuck out of here By here he meant the store but also his face his life and maybe his world When he says it now he says I want to get the get out of here By here he means your world not his When he says my world he means my home He means where he was born When he says I want to get the get out of here he wants to go home and by that he means where he wants to die He wants to die at home Let me be clear My father doesn’t want to die in the house he lives in now surrounded by his children his walls his bottles his eyeglasses He wants to die in his home in his homeland and I don’t know if he means the house or the city he was born in but he should know though I have not told him yet that the house and the city he was born in have both been turned to dust and by turned to dust I mean obliterated and by obliterated I mean bombed to oblivion and of course by oblivion I mean where he is going and obviously by he I also mean we