Grapefruit

I shall wheel a grapefruit*

In honour of the dead

In honour of the people

Who looked upon and said

You'll never wheel a grapefruit

You haven't got the hands

You haven't got the stamina

You haven't got the fans


*This is an old Lithuanian proverb my Grandfather used to often repeat to me, although I’m unable to recall the native expression he said before repeating with the English translation.
It means to show the determination to go ahead and do something against all logic and advice because you truly believe in it. Apparently, when I was very young my Grandad would mutter the phrase at me as I showed this determination to do apparently pointless and unconventional activities.
In my teenage years, when my Grandad became wheelchair bound, I would wheel him the short distance from his bungalow to the village pub for a shared pint in the roadside garden and we would sing this nonsense song of ours together (him joining me to emphasise the rhyming last word of alternate lines) much to our own amusement and to the confusion of friends of either of our separate generations who passed.
Strangers often assumed I was making fun of a mad old man, but we were both making fun of a mad old world.