User:DOOGEE9W

DOOGEE9W
This UserName belongs to Douglas Ian Spencer of broome, W.A., 6725, with the email address of: dsp29075@bigpond.net.au. He is a single male born 12th of April, 1939, and living alone in State provided accommodation and has no family members less than 3500 kilometres distant. Having turned 70 years old merely 6 months ago, he finds that his mind is almost obsessively conscious of faults and failures that seem to begin as seeds and blossom into weeds as they feast upon the fertiliser of fear and fragility excreted by the passage of Time and the unrelenting approach of Death. As a young man, he was no better or worse than the rest, but having survived the Wild Sixties despite being convinced that he would never live to see his 30th birthday, he gradually became more certain of meeting some design of Deity sooner than later. Drugs, vehicle accidents, sundry injuries and a variety of hospital holidays resulted in him being declared clinically dead for 8 hours in the mid seventies and a Priest performing 'The Last Rites' over him before he turned 40, only served to strengthen his certaintity of an early extinction. However his achievement in surpassing his span of "3 score years and 10" came more of a shock than a surprise. The World seen through his eyes when still a youth refuses to appear unchanged but the maleness within him still holds fast to youth in complete disregard for the reality of an aging body incapable of making good use of that disappearing desire that, like an unquenchable fire, burns as brightly as it did in the body of the boy. The society of today decrees that any man who is old must also be senile, useless and a pederast as well. Fortunately, This Man is none of these things but, as if indifferent to ageing, His mind is still sharp and his wit as cutting; faded though bladed thus, he writes poetry and humour and loves conversations with his friends...even those he has yet to meet. Why not be so fortunate yourself?