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My dad, born today, the 17th of February
   bucked fate head-on, courageous and daring

Raised in a home on a block so poor
   he swam upstream, de rigeur

In 1926, all his teeth fell out
   lack of fluoridation won that bout

In 1929, young brother Sidney died of malnutrition
   the family couldn't afford to see a physician

In '33, he chucked religion, came to Chicago on a mission
   to look for a job midst the Great Depression

His family had gambled on their decision
   that my father Maury's iron-willed ambition

Would see brother Herman through dental school
   which my dad would pay for, as a hard-working fool

And so he did (!) and so it went, 'till my father Maury was
   sent overseas, B.A. in hand, to fight Adolph Hitler in a foreign land

When he returned, he earned himself a law degree
   married his sweetheart Maxine with two pennies

or three to his name, he toiled at his law firm's bottom
   'till he saved so much money that a ranch house he got him

in Highland Park, Illinois in a subdivision on a tree-lined street
   my dad's rags-to-relative-riches story, a Horatio Alger throwback treat

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