My Father, Part Two

George F. Walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights, pens an elegy to his father in seven parts. Esoterica will syndicate one part each day leading up to Father’s Day, 2022.

By George F. Walker

Work in a Pittsburgh steel mill was hard and dirty. But a long ride on a box car had brought him there, and people were hiring. So that’s what he did. For several months.

“I could have had a future there,” he me told me once.

“What kind of future?”

“I don’t know for sure. But people rose up.”

Not him though. He was never the rising up kin…