This Is What Happens When You Stop Being Young

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Geriatrics has become

a wondrous science.

The medics can now

stretch your life out

an additional twenty years

but they don't tell you

that most of those years

are going to be spent

flat on your back

while some ghoul

with thick glasses

and a matted skull

peers at you through a machine

that's out of "Space Patrol."

GROUCHO MARX

(1954)

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Questions

Does MRI actually stand for

My Retired Identity

???

What did Groucho mean 

by "Space Control"

??? 

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