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  2.                                  SENIOR CITIZENS
  3.  
  4.                                        ***
  5.                                  SENIOR CITIZENS
  6.                          ARE THE BIGGEST CARRIERS OF AIDS
  7.                                    Hearing aids
  8.                                      Bandaids
  9.                                      Rolaids
  10.                                    Walking aids
  11.                                     Medic aids
  12.                                  Government aids.
  13.                                        ***
  14.                                 I CAN'T REMEMBER
  15.                          Just a line to say I'm living
  16.                          that I'm not among the dead.
  17.                        Though I'm getting more forgetful
  18.                             and mixed up in the head.
  19.                            I got used to my arthritis
  20.                           to my dentures I'm resigned.
  21.                             I can manage my bifocals
  22.                             but boy! I miss my mind!
  23.                          For sometimes I can't remember 
  24.                            when at the stairs I stare
  25.                          if I must go up for something
  26.                      or, have I just come down from there?
  27.                          And before the fridge so often
  28.                        my poor mind is filled with doubt:
  29.                            Have I just put food away
  30.                         or have I come to take some out?
  31.                       And there are times when it is dark
  32.                         --with my nightcap on my head--
  33.                           I don't know if I'm retiring
  34.                             or I just got out of bed.
  35.                         So, if it's my time to write you
  36.                         there's no need for getting sore.
  37.                          I may think that I have written
  38.                            and don't want to be a bore.
  39.                            So, remember that I love you
  40.                            and wish that you were near.
  41.                           But now it's nearly mail time
  42.                           so I must say "Goodbye," dear.
  43.                            Here I stand at the mailbox
  44.                             with a face so fiery red.
  45.                        Instead of mailing you this letter
  46.                               I opened it instead!
  47.                                     (Unknown)
  48.                                        ***
  49.                                    GOOD MEMORY
  50.                               I have a good memory.
  51.                                  It's just short.
  52.                                        ***
  53.                                ONE GOOD THING ABOUT
  54.                                   A SHORT MEMORY
  55.                                  You get to meet
  56.                               a lot of new friends!
  57.                                        ***
  58.                                    METALLIC AGE
  59.                  You know you have entered the metallic age when
  60.                       The gold in your hair turns to silver
  61.                       The white in your teeth turns to gold
  62.                         And the iron in your blood turns 
  63.                              to lead in your bottom.
  64.                                        ***
  65.                                       MEMORY
  66.                      I never will forget ol' what's-his-name.
  67.                                        ***
  68.                              SALLY'S NEW BOY FRIENDS
  69.                                  My friend Sally
  70.                                 said that she has
  71.                             some new boy friends that 
  72.                            stick closer than a brother:
  73.                                    Arthur Ritis
  74.                                        and 
  75.                                      Ben Gay.
  76.                                        ***
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  79.                                        END
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