Old John

The octogenarian John he has learned from life

Though he does not have children or a partner or wife

He was not short of lovers in his physical prime

Though this is going back many Seasons in time

Seven decades ago in the city of Warrnambool

Not one of the bright boys of the primary school

But John says on the day he left school his education began

And he is learning from life even as an ageing man

Old John as a younger man travelled far and wide

And worked in big cities and in towns of the countryside

He says the school of life is the greatest school of all

And from life he is learning into his life's Fall

John in his early eighties who lives on his own

Says of life and her ways there is much to be known.