th future

The future

?

In Japan, an island where old people live

there is a push for euthanasia

?after a good meal

watching spring flowers on a screen and resting

?on a bed of scented roses.

To qualify, one has to be 75.

Contrast this with Harrison Ford, who at eighty

plays a hero fighting the Nazis.

Ok, close-ups are digitally advanced till he looks

35-five, smooth and wrinkle-free.

I remember a Beetle song: will you love me

When I’m 65?

To think Paul, of the Beetles, is over eighty.

My advice is: don’t go West, young man, go

East and seek your fortune.

Alas, doomed to live till I die, reflecting that

I’m eighty-five and have a newspaper round to

Pay for the medicine keeping me alive.

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