When can you be said
To have lived enough
To not be mourned overmuch
After you’re finally dead?
Imagine generations
Of humans born expecting
To get to two-score and ten,
Any one of them amazed
And frankly lonely to find
Life carrying on
At fifty-eight, fifty-nine.
Would that be any different
Than our centenarians
Bemused to still be present?
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