Wait till you qualify for pension credits, sonny.
Dope does something to the ageing process. Keith Richard used to tell a story about a Harlem kid who got a habit aged 10. When he was 18, he was arrested and thrown into The Tombs, where he went cold turkey and his voice broke. Dopers of all ages have the innocence of children - you must have noticed.
Over 60, I'm yet to go grey or, worse, bald. Throughout decades of perfect health, conventional folk have warned I won't last long on my drug regimen. But it's me who visits the poor suckers in hospital or attends their funerals. The pickled live longer and the stoned-immaculate find grace with the immortals. It's quite logical. Stress kills. You don't get uptight on good medicine. Don't do much else, either, but that's another story.
" I've put a couple of years in longer than you, baby, that's all.." from 'Band of the Hand' is a song that says it all about growing old.
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