GERONTOCRACY RULES
Gerontocracy is a word I do not like
Gerontocracy is popularised by silly old fuckers
Who frequently fall off their (motor) bikes
Gerontocracy is for coffin-dodgers
Who can now afford the platinum model
And peddle dreams that are no longer theirs to peddle
Gerontocracy is doddery rule by senile fools
Who believe they can live forever:
Gerontocracy rules – but only in good weather.
DAWNING
‘Silly old fool’, someone
Shouts in your wake
And in the brilliantly-lit
Cube of time ‘old’ is dangled
Before your eyes
And won’t go away
She called you old! And
In the instant it takes you
To turn around and see
The solitary young woman
Bend down to retrieve her parcel
It dawns on you that you are
Nearer the end than the beginning
Much nearer
It comes, not creeping in the dark,
But galloping unstoppably
Over the horizon
And you never see it
Silly old fool
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