The Good Bunch

By Jack Joseph Smith

Five warriors; a Mom and a Daughter, and a Son with a sailor guy's name They are back up, for the other Son, a fine fellow athletic And the father, a military intellectual, turned by choice and circumstance into a street fighter These two warrior's are absolute For the Son faces the height of medical structure While the father has just finished, with the most historical of classical combat Let us join with the mythical god's of courage and our Lord of course in bringing success and peace to this family

Already known from Waimea Falls to the Tigris Euphrates, as the good bunch Your Friend, with Love, Jack 2008

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GPT

The speaker praises a five-person family supporting a son facing medical structures and a father turned from military intellectual into street fighter. The coda extends the tribute from Waimea Falls to the Tigris Euphrates and closes with Jack's affection and the year 2008.

The speaker asks mythical gods of courage and the Lord to bring the family success and peace. The signed closing addresses the family as friends after describing the son's and father's separate battles.

Claude

The poem praises 'Five warriors; a Mom and a Daughter, / and a Son with a sailor guy's name' backing up 'the other Son', while a father 'turned by choice and circumstance / into a street fighter' finishes his own fight. It asks gods and 'our Lord' for success and peace and ends with the family 'Already known from Waimea Falls to the / Tigris Euphrates, / as the good bunch', signed 'Your Friend, / with Love, / Jack / 2008'.

A family tribute is written in the language of combat, with mythic gods and the Lord invoked together in a warm, slightly playful epic tone. The handwritten sign-off turns the poem into a personal gift.