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On my birthday, my sons and daughters-in-law composed a song for me to be sung to the tune of Ein Feste Burg by Luther, aka “A Mighty Fortress….” I post it here for the record with no comments on its content except to say it will now be hard to sing the real hymn without recalling the words below. For those unfamiliar with Dishman family humor, these boys of mine think I have something wrong with my pronounce-i-ation. I have no idea what they are talking about!

Pop’s Birthday Song

1. A mighty father is our Pop
A man of much computing.
He organizes all his days
With matrices exuding.
Doest ask who that may be?
John Dishman, it is he.
At times he will endo
Alzheimers flares also.
His name is Pop with a crapital P.

2. A mighty planner is our pop
With a strong bent to’rd science
He strives to bring all of the facts
Into a strict compliance
Plan, do, check, act he crows
To vanquish family woes
Let us not logic kill
But rather feel the thrill
Of pathways walked with wisdom.

3. A mighty father is our pop
A grandpop never failing
Our helper he amidst the flood
Of verbal slips prevailing
Far from the nursery home
His syllables do roam
He scratters them about
He has much lingual clout
And this at Bornes and Noble

4. He’s fond of adding R’s to words
Which otherwise don’t need one.
Like “Churken,” “Air herd,” “Crapitalize,”
And the infamous “Warshington.”
Our Puddleglum is grim
Because we laugh at him.
He suffers from R-squared
In his vocabulaire
One little word shall sproil him

5. He likes to snurf the internet
While list’ning to toccata in puge
He’s got a pair of twenty socks
Look out or he will call you YOU!
The squirting butter flows
Over his po-TA-toes
He loves his Atkins fries
With churken on the side
His LDL is plummeting.

6. Did he in his own strength confide
His biking would be losing
Thorns, thistles, mud and grabbing vines:
Would give him a bad bruising
The gash in his forehead
It smarted and it bled
Peroxide saved the day
He gargles it alway(s)
And it must win the battle.

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