One over 60’s perspective on the Intergenerational Report…

Mar 06, 2015

This is a poem sent in today by Val about an over 60s take on the Intergenerational Report…

My years are totting up
So quickly as the years roll around
But I’m glad I am the age I am
Or work for me would be found

I read that Bunnings employ

Staff if they’re fifty plus

But Hockey’s raised the bar

And now seventy is a ‘must’

So will there be more like Bunnings

To show a welcome to the aged

As the Federal Government insists

Older ones can earn a wage

Who’ll cast aside their walking frames

And shine up their spectacles

And cancel their bingo membership

(Lots of things will be overhauled)

And practice smiling again

If that smile’s turned to a glower

And realise time’s meaningful

Now work ‘s part of those hours

But I need’nt worry

About that missive in the mail

Telling me to rally

Causing me to quail

‘Cos yippee I’m well past that

And I can still draw that stipend

And know that I’ll receive it

Right up to the very end

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