Updated: Nov 10, 2022
Don’t knock technology you precious Boomer
with stents to hold your options open
pacemakers to keep you up with the beat
lenses to enhance your critical eye
and aids to stop the youngsters mumbling
there’s mesh to hold in your sags and bulges
titanium screws for your shattered dreams
ceramics and polymers, silicon and wires
your teeth capped and crowned for a royal smile
so don’t give us all that natural bullshit
carry with pride the shrapnel of the age.
It was down to bone on bone they said, but he shouldered on as each year ground on the year before until much to do was hard to reach so he succumbed to the surgeon’s cut, the incisive smile of an ope
We shouldn't personify inanimate objects It's patronising and they don't like it On my morning foreshore walk I met a stone, grey and worn like me but a curious shape and comfortable in my palm. Each
I follow the news but do not set the pace teach what I was taught without invention and hook my carriage to a steady train the Thursday in a busy week one well aware of precedent and protocol the univ