anyone have a light?

i have a cigar knife
that belonged to my
great-grandfather
worn almost to a nub
resting peacefully now
in my top drawer
waiting for another cigar
to prepare, but I don't smoke.

When Papa was 12,
his father died from stomach cancer,
and he received an education at
the farm and trade school
(which isn't there anymore
on Thompson's island in Boston Harbor)
and that knife.

Uncle John got some other knick-knack that meant
just as much to their father.

They both also got new shoes.

I don302222t really know what Uncle John got.

And I don't know what happened to the shoes,
probably worn out and buried like Unk and Papa.

But the cigar knife -- that's in my drawer.