Ship worms
do to the
hull of the
old wooden boat
what ageing
does to the
body of the
old human being.
Category: Bon mots
I am the 1%
Postage stamp
collectors are
90%
male and
99%
conservative.
Collective noun
I awake,
each morning,
to a shudder,
of anxieties.
Dumbocracy
We’ve tried
Anocracy,
Aristocracy,
Autocracy,
Democracy,
Gerontocracy,
Ochlocracy,
Plutocracy,
Theocracy.
Can we try
Meritocracy
now please?
Hope less
Walk on,
walk on,
with hope
in your
heart, and
someone
will trip
you up.
Cockatoo dreaming
To White
Cockatoos, Black
Cockatoos must
seem the stuff
of nightmares.
To Black Cockatoos,
White Cockatoos
must seem the
ghosts of ancestors.
Why did the dinosaur cross the road?
Sixty
million
years ago,
the dinosaurs
had a saying –
“as rare as a
toothless hen.”
Practice makes perfect
Being forgotten,
while you are still in
land of the living,
prepares you for
being forgotten,
after you are long gone.
Early days
It takes a whole
lifetime, three score
years and ten, or
more, to get clear
in your mind the
structure and the
meaning of your
childhood years. You
never get the time
to sort out the
rest of your life.
Drip, drip, drip
As we grow older
small invisible
pores form in our skulls
and from them (like holes
in water tanks) drip
thoughts and ideas,
and memories of
recent times (being
closer to surface
of the mind), and wit
and concentration,
and names of people
once known like brothers
and sisters, and new
appointments, and old
research written by
me (apparently).
Quite soon the tank of
my mind I thought so
full will empty, like
dams drying in this
fearsome drought of my
old age.
