IN DEFENCE OF THE ELDERLY GOLFERS

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Contributor / 2009-11-26 14:11:28

In response to the poem, "A game of golf with the elderly," in issue 290, 16th Nov. there seems to have been one small but very relevant fact overlooked.

If the venue is changed when people are absent, then it seems to me that it is up to the people changing it to_inform those who are not there.It makes me wonder who the senile ones are.

Let's all play a game of golf, someone said,

No, let's do something else, -- for a change instead.

I know what we'll do that's not often done,

Let's pick somebody old, -- and then have some fun.

We'll all plan to play on a certain course,

Then we'll alter the venue, - without remorse,

When the fogies go to the course we said,

Then we'll ring them up, -- saying" Are you brain dead?"

Was there a thought that the elderly feel?

On behalf of the old, -- I'd like to appeal,

It's not fun at all when people grow old,

I just think it's something, -- they should have been told.

As these people grow old I know they'll find,

The body wears out,- be it flesh or the mind.

You cannot avoid it, and now I'll say, that is where they'll all end,

-- on some future day.

Despite the fact they say my mind has gone, who came out at the top, - as the number one? Who walked the course while pulling a trolley? While those of less years, -- just rode on a buggy.

This poem is written as young Ted's was done, On a serious note,- but all done in fun. But please bear in mind one day as a joke, It could be at you, -- that they're having a poke.

Victim aged 71

Tags: Defence, Golfers, Elderly