He’s wearing his white shoes
as he sits at the gambling table
as good as anyone
as money and chips
fly back and forth
and upstairs his wife
tries to fill her time
filing and filing her nails
the tv on unnoticed
she’s seen it all before
maybe she’ll go down to the pool
and sit in the sun
he says a good trip
if you break even
he’s my Greek father-in-law
and I remember the movie
where a Greek in white shoes
returns from abroad
with his big
American car probably Buick
shipped over for show
his success coming back home
and the relatives say
the car’s too big
for our roads
and I ask the movie screen
“How did you know
my father-in-law?”