Uncle Joe
we never really knew eachother
but I can still remember
how you loved puns
and joking at the dinner table
and how one time you gave me
a fine fishing reel

Decades after your death
you came
into my dreams
eyes sparkling
as if holding back
some funny joke
some marvellous secret

You walked right up to me
I said "but uncle Joe
it's been some forty years!"
and he said "no
I never died
I've just been hiding
just been hiding out"