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Getting Old



Getting old

Scared of getting old
Scared of being told
Times ticking away
I’m scared of getting old
I’m scared of being past it
A sad old useless git

Bit of a sensitive subject my age
Pretty easy to rattle me cage
Pretty easy when you mention my age
Getting harder to get away
With treating the public house like a stage
Waltzing in like it’s all pre arranged
Oh no
Found another grey hair
It was this morning
Caught a glimpse when I was yawning
Felt my privates in case they’re spawning
Some kind of crawly thing
Something scary and disgusting
Cut it out
If it’s there

And don’t offer it me in a bottle

And don’t make a joke of my age

They tell me you can’t misbehave
You’re supposed to consider your age
Supposed to consider the words on your grave
Not drool over talent
Or neck drugs at a rave
Nah, nah misbehave you cant
Too old, not supposed to
Too old too choked too
Scared of getting old
It’s slipping
Hugh Heffner is old
Wonder if he’s scared of being old
I reckon his birds don’t care
About his posh shagging pad lair

Don’t even go there

Don’t you dare mention
My lack of attention
To facial hair
To grey facial hair
because I’m getting old
there's
a lack of vigour
Of flair
In my dress sense
For this I offer no defence
The pressure of time is so immense
My skin is cracking.


I don’t want end up in one of them homes
With baggy eyes and crows feet
All drugged and slumped in me seat
Will you shoot me first?
Before the knackers yard nursing home
Before my brain rots
With
Stale meals on wheels
And Christmas repeats of Del boy’s deals
The fools and horses
It’s easy to watch
As I wither away in a trance

I’m scared of getting old
I don’t wanna be told
By the wards nurse
By lips that purse
In false gesture
Come on, its time to test your

Wait…………….

Is it not a bit too late for that?

Seems some are scared of getting old
Am I a wimp through a fear of getting old?
My mates aren’t scared of old age
They say, what’s with all this rage
Whets with all the contemplating
This constant demonstrating
Your fear of getting old
I feel alone in this fear of getting old

How do you feel, about getting old?
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 03:03 pm
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<Deleted User>

Come off it, Pete.

YOU

will never get old!

(what would you do to stay... is it stay alive, or stay young? Would you go for the full fangs and blood and bed at dawn thing? Would you? I sometimes wonder: tempting, tempting)

As Roy Harper said: I wanted to live forever.... and the anguish in his voice says it all.

It's in the performance: this is where you are truly great.

Best wishes
Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:01 pm
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You're talking to an expert now young man,
but I have to admit your insights are frighteningly bold, however there are advantages apparently to growing old,
if only I could think of them...

what did you say my name was....?

Dave

I hope you get round to performing this to all us old codgers at the WoL Christmas Party
Fri, 7 Dec 2007 04:42 pm
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Oh Peter,

You will be fine. Your only as old as you think and feel you are.To stay young...well cut down on drinking, its bad for you.Hair color is a great thing, use it if its needed. Take care of your skin, drink loads of water, take vitamins, and use a good lotion...esp hands face and neck areas.Stay active, ride a bike, go for walks and breath deep. Play games, go dancing. Laugh and laugh and laugh...smile. In the fall play like a child in the piles of leaves. In the sping go on picnics and pick flowers.Be you and BE HAPPY! You know that others care about you. Oh and use sun screen, the sun will do more then give you a tan, it will make you look old. All my friends, that were sun worshipers, and younger then I, look so old now. Ha, they were hot hot hot and now they are not not not. take care
Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:38 am
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Avoid being carbon dated. The process involves radio-active 'reading.' If you drink lots of carbonated drinks it's like adding mileage to a car -- and use charcoal insoles with caution. Avoid moonlight, that's like old sunlight so dodgy. Glue an emerald to your forehead. Stroking trumpets and other brass instruments reduces bloodpressure. Sleep with your tongue wrapped in honey and flypaper.
Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:47 am
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darren thomas

I've tried each and everyone of those Moxy. They didn't work for me. Having said that, i don't look too bad for a man of 117. It must be the Guinness - or my blood pressure reading. Not too sure what the Doc said?

I'm at the Hilton Hotel in Manchester this evening. Cultivating root vegetables and throwing the words of Ben Jonson from the rooftop.I'm sure he'll not mind.
Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:16 pm
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Nice one, Clarissa, what colour do you suggest for my hair? So few left they could be hand painted. Day glo could be useful when out walking on dark winter roads, though it might tend to cause rather than prevent mishaps, what with the effect of the glow reflected by the pate on unsuspecting motorists.

I tried carbon dating when I had more lead in my pencil. It’s like speed dating, but it’s done in a coalhouse by people who are often on coke. Some of my acquaintances over the years have favoured speed dumping. But even they are fast disappearing.

As, Moxy, for choking strumpets and glueing haemorrhoids to one’s forehead…

No, I shall wear purple and go barefoot in the spring in order not to go mental in that goodnight, raging against the lying of the diet, my hand-painted halo illuminating the celestial stairwell.
Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:50 pm
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Moxy thats too funny, Darren your not that old..stop it! Julian Im not sure about the hand painting, but you know many men look very good with less hair, Im sure much better then say a woman with less hair.Yall really are very silly and I love it..psssst...its a sign of being young.Stay young at heart, its good for you.
Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:35 am
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Pete
We are getting older when we do more and more things for the last time and fewer and fewer things for the first time.
Any one who stops learning is old,whether at twenty or eighty. Keep learning and stay young
And of course keep active and lie about your age.
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Sun, 9 Dec 2007 11:07 am
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Pete Crompton

Hi guys and goals
(that's an old saying aint it?)

well, you know I think all your advice is excellent!
I feel ten years younger for poetry!

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:11 pm
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