as the father lifts his toe from the starting block of his 75th year and the son stumbles and gropes past the midpoint of his 41st lap toward an individual century it is doubtless that neither of them will make it to that particular finish line.
no, it is certain that both of them will come up short.
not a shame or a sham, a slight or a shortchanging just a statement of fact.
the father might come close and for the sake of the son it is hoped that he does.
The click and crackle of knee, hip, and lumbar fill one’s ears and thoughts with the rumors of one’s mortality.
It is known that the father will one day fade as sure as a sunset and the son will melt into the floor and stay there. *