Teach Me Codgering

One supposed meaning of which is 

Coffin dodger alongside a host of other

Suspects like cadger old falconers 

But what I want to know is how to

Own my own eccentricity apart from

That tint of dismissiveness often 

Attributed to elder men qua

Aldermen given authority 

To disburse resources to a host of 

Needs as if in possession of wisdom

Relevant to gendered assumptive 

Knighting as accurate as a handful

Of tossed seeds toward a plat of land 

A garden assumed to be a wellspring