• A's for arthritis
• B's for bad back
• C's for the chest pains. Corned beef? Cardiac?
• D is for dental decay and decline
• E is for eyesight--can't read that top line
• F is for fissures and fluid retention
• G is for gas (which I'd rather not mention)
  And other gastrointestinal glitches
• H is high blood pressure
• I is for itches
• J is for joints that are failing to flex
• L's for libido--what happened to sex?
• Wait! I forgot about K for bad knees
  (I've got a few gaps in my M-memory)
• N's for nerve (pinched) and neck (stiff) and neurosis
• O is for osteo-
• P's for porosis
• Q is for queasiness. Fatal? Just flu?
• R is for reflux--one meal becomes two
• S is for sleepless nights counting my fears
• T is for tinnitus--bells in my ears
• U is for difficulties urinary
• V is for vertigo
• W is worry
• About what the X--as in X ray--will find
  But through the word "terminal" rushes to mind,
  I'm proud, as each
  
• Y - year - goes by, to reveal
  A reservoir of undiminished
• Z - zeal--- For checking the symptoms my body's deployed
  And keeping my twenty-six doctors employed.