Old Enough To Know Better
some say that age
is just a number
you are as old as you feel
not as you act
but if you don’t act your age
you are trying to fool people
age may be just a number
but one that tells a story
one that defines you
generalizes
labels your place in life
people don’t even need to meet you
but if they know your age
it has told them everything
they need to know
like race gender
colour of your hair
each tells others
all about you
even if they never spoken to you
if you are that blond
well everyone
already know about blonds
even ones you’ve never met
we know all about that black guy gal
just by looking
everything is revealed by
her over-made eyes
his six-pack
six-pack is just a number
right
a rib-cage
not a personality
an age is a cage
used to lock away
sight unseen
how old am I
why ask
it’s just a number
not a death sentence
There’s an episode of Designing Women in which a character who dates older men tells the one she’s currently dating to act his age – so he dies. The joke being that at his age most men were already dead. Now, I’m not at that age, or at least I don’t think I am. How old do you have to be to shot in a church? Not that I’d be caught dead in a church, but that’s another story.
This piece is as much about aging as it is about how easy it is to slot people into categories based on age, race, gender, job etc. One facet being enough to define them in such a way it becomes difficult to see them beyond that one facet. What team do you like in the play-offs? Saying one isn’t into sports isn’t the right answer. My reply is usually ‘the team that wears the least.’ Ambiguity apparently breeds distrust.
This is how ‘image’ sells. Photos of stars without make-up are often rendered unrecognizable. Privacy is obtained by disguising themselves as themselves not as the product sold on screen. But treat the dressed-down version as an ordinary person & beware, right?
In the shallow world of on online gay male dating age is nearly as crucial as dick size. In fact I’ve seen profiles say, to the effect that, ‘if you are over 50 your dick better be over 8 inches.’ One learns that many men aren’t the age this say they are, or that the photos of them are actually 10 years old.
I’m not keen of being confined by any definition. So when asked, how big is your dick, I’ll say ‘more the enough to satisfy;’ when asked my age I’ll usually say ‘old enough to know better.’
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