St Mary's all hail the uncles

St Mary's all hail the uncles

One day 

My uncle saw that BYU 

and St Mary's U 

In Moraga, Cali 

playing basketball

Or was it baseball

"I saw this as a place,"

My uncle said,

To sell my house (in Salt Lake City, UT) and move to"

Retire from retirement 

That is

"If the wife goes first"

He reiterated

Start a new life.

Then, Later, upon a separate visit (uncles not talking these live long years over an old maelstrom) 

my other uncle,

Upon hearing 

his (younger) brother 

was seeing something in 

St Mary's remembered 

Their grandfather 

Who was a janitor for

St Mary's school 

On the hills in SLC

Who said, (circa 1953 or so),

 pushing his broom,

"You should go to St Mary's 

College - it's a baseball college"

"But I never did," older uncle said, sweeping his hand out 

Over the street, yards, neighborhood,

"instead,

 I met Connie (the girl next door) and stayed right here"

Grandpa is long gone

Connie's gone now, too

The uncles are here

Caught in between 

St Mary's 

Then

And 

Now

Yearning,

Missing 

The living their life

and lonely 

All hail St Mary's,

Dear uncles.