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This was Spike Milligan's take on the subject in 1973 when he was still only 55:
"I walked along some forgotten shore.
Coming the other way
a smiling boy. . .
It was me.
'Who are you, old man?' he said.
I dare not tell him all I could say was
'Go back!' "
N.B. This is not exactly as the poet laid it out because the system here would not allow it. "a smiling boy. . ." should be indented so that it starts under the 'o' of 'other' in the line above. I'm sure Spike himself would have found some cutting comment on being disciplined by a machine!