Poem: I Met Athol Guy.

He must have been around 48 because I was about 13…

He’s nearly 80 now.

(And I’m far closer to the age he was then than I ever thought was going to be possible).

He was standing by the buffet table, his band had just played and they had this dirty great-big fuck-off feed waiting for them.

The Seekers.

Or The New Seekers.

Judith Durham wasn’t there anyway.

So i…