And all that you have learned is but empty noise to them

The world that your father knew disappeared so long ago

Why, the world that you grew up in is now their ancient history

Things you found important are just no longer relevant

Movements that you’ve never heard of create the news today

The future you always awaited now bobs in your fading wake

Glancing into your eyes, all they see is some boring past

Your endless possibilities have quite slowly merged

Today it’s you just sitting quietly, watching their kids now

The latest calls to action are not intended for your ears

Your once unlimited time now reveals a distinct horizon

Presently it hurts just getting up, even after sleeping well

And all that you have learned is but empty noise to them

Your treasured possessions are not even fit to be donations

They’ve never heard of historic events that you witnessed on TV

The work you toiled so long upon is no longer done

Their kids don’t understand any of the stories from your youth

The ideas that molded you are no longer circulating

Your youthful ideals were scuttled quite long ago

Your search for meaning was halted due to falling darkness

Your HappyEverAfter was postponed until further notice

You are the ones now, who are older than dirt

The world as you explain it now turns only in your mind

Your acquired wisdom just makes them smile to each other

Your once cutting edge is now quaint and outdated

Your volunteer labor is not even worth the minimum wage

Now it’s you who they’re making fun of in edgy hipster skits

But you’re keeping real busy just looking for your glasses

And nice people often call you about things that you should buy

They ask who it could be when they see you in those old pictures

Now it’s you waving goodbye as they drive away

You’ve put down your load and become an awkward burden

You’re ready to enjoy life but you’re worn-out, confused and broke

But, Hey: You even try to walk a little, almost every day

It’s they who remember you’re telling that same story once again

And the sun really is too bright for your golden years

First in line, you’re next to go and you’ve already been cast off

The Geriatric Question, Final Solutions

    “Nature is cruel; Therefore we are also entitled to be cruel” - Adolf Hitler

At 50 all our workers become eligible for permanent external transfers and lose all promised benefits

It shall be established in court and buttressed by statute that age-related prejudice cannot be proven

Corporate bankruptcies can routinely renege on all pledges made to retirees – with no legal backlash

There is to be no shame associated with selling parents into poverty so that they can get on Medicaid

It will not be viewed as prejudicial to vilify the old for their disproportionate share of medical costs

Politicians ignore the aged at their own peril - until they’re sure they can win without their votes

It is a winning policy to gut social security funding in the guise of a payroll tax cut to win an election

Unlike the fats, blacks and gays, comedians may ridicule seniors in any way and context they see fit

We’ll just ignore all the crime which odiously targets the aged with slick and honest-sounding frauds

One tacit Traditional Family Value™ is that our frayed elders are as irrelevant as that old 20^th century

Nobody needs ever ask how forced retirees will survive for 35 years without any savings or benefits

All shall silently agree that those no longer allowed to contribute labor have earned a duty to die

Seniors must wear easily-identifiable, ill-fitting, out of style clothes at all venues, public and private

The aged may be herded into expensive, gated communities which even they wont label as ghettos

Stubborn old fools who refuse to conform may dine alone on pet food while they freeze in darkness

The pre-funeral health industry is hereby granted access to smilingly drain the savings of our elders

Citizens may politely ignore their limping, half-blind, zombie-like demonstrations for social equality

Their faulty memories are not to be confused with the stressed data overload of our own blurry lives

Briefly mumbling at their expensive IC bedsides shall be deemed good enough to see them off forever

It is proper to drain their time and money as volunteers once they’ve been excreted from their jobs

Oldsters must self-identify by driving too slowly in tiredly-clean cars with right-wing bumper stickers

They shall be gathered together and fed donated food while listening to old music thru hearing aids

They must accept that costly, boring cruise ship tours really are the dream vacations of their lives

Over 60s will be prescribed different, brandname drugs by each doctor without regard to interactions

To cap their abusive medical expenses, the old must forever pay all the never-ending cost increases

After lifetimes funding parent’s social security, their own benefits must go for schooling illegales kids

They shall be convinced that daily slow limping and eating sawdust will yield them long and rich lives

Their non-profit interest groups may sell them out behind closed doors and then lie to them about it

The elderly have no need to understand criminally overly-complex retirement financial milking scams

The government may decimate senior savings by artificially holding interest rates below inflation

TV may smilingly patronize the old, showing them performing formerly simple tasks, Almost normally

Doctors are encouraged to get rich being surrogate friends and family to lonely and decaying retirees

There shall be no guilt associated with warehousing parents grown too burdensome for our busy lives

Geriatrics will be weaned off the entitlement mentality via forced feedings of Personal Responsibility

Seniors must lose their false entitlement regarding benes they were always told that they had earned

Doctors and relatives may discuss a flagging elder in the third person, as if they were not even there