St Elizabeth Jamaica

My day began with mommy making beef patties all morning I helped cutting the veggies for the curry soup while sipping ginger beer I remembered the curry for her special curry goat we were preparing for her sisters to visit from Trench town my head spending day dreaming about it anything other than our family tradition the Caribbean bakery we were the descendant no if ands or buts about granddad made home made gingerbread cookies while uncles peeled sugarcane the elders brought raw cocoa from the Mahogany trees coconut husks hung sparingly as we drank coconut milk while the storms brewed over the shanty town of Kingston the cock crowed throughout trench town as my cousins played keyboards and guitars in the street to the the sweetest sultutry sound of St Elizabeth infamous Caribbean beat In loving memory of Dad Caribbean Bakery 1539 Howard street Chicago Illinois..