stones

Keith Richards almost seems immune to death
'though passing years have winnowed down his friends.
The gin, and heroin, and coke, and meth...
for lesser mortals, spelled an early end.
Subdural hematoma gave a scare
Hans Brinker's father's old pathology.
They had to drill to vent the pressure there
when Keith came down the coconut palm tree.
Mick jogs a million miles to stay so svelte
while Keith's a lot more laid back, for his part.
He feasts, and sometime buys a longer belt;
he's not the one laid up to patch a heart.
The tour's on hold until the band's back, whole;
no subset of the Stones seems moved to roll.