Geoff
He’s been missing, that old lad with his idiosyncratic limp walk seen walking up and back the beach most mornings: he’s been missing for the last week.. the lanky old bugger, always smiling.
This gets to you when your twenty young years gets multiplied by four .. when the missing in action almost fills a ledger of old mates. So many gone.
But today in the distance, gimping along as he has always done .. Geoff .. indestructible. The tough old bugger doesn’t even carry a towel down to the beach and as I pass him, swimming out to the sandbank with the sure and steady stroke of a man born to the rough water I’m reminded of the hard old boys at Warriewood and Avalon, Byron Bay, Mona Vale and Bondi. What a motley crew we all were, and how few of us are left.
But always enough left to still cause trouble.
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I worrry about getting out of my fifties with the odd celebrity male of fifty odd dropping off from a heart attack. I always liked the term three score and ten, it has an old grandness about it, but when you have mostly used up the three score and you have only the ten left, it loses that grandness.
But then I watched Platoon for about the tenth time last night and the black character King (Keith David) is talking to Chris (Charlie Sheen), just before the last ominous battle. Chris is down on himself and the world and Chris says, all you gotta do is make it out of here alive (Vietnam) and everyday is gravy after that.
So all I gotta do I suppose is make it to the end of that biblical time allotment then consider everyday after that gravy. King also said keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, but that aint to hard to do nowadays, no matter your age.
P.S King finds out his time is done just before the battle and jumps on a chopper elated, I suppose that is like winning lotto or something metaphorically, that I am vainly trying to do.