Veterans

For quite a while now Ive noticed something very disturbing about veteran entertainers . As they reach older age their facial expressions become leathered and distant . The eyes become dead and positively glazed  ,  though their vocals over compensate for this as connecting with their audiences attention span is still hard wired into their priority's even after several decades . They can never turn off the " act " , but the act is slowly leaving them , bit by bit . What's left is a manikin  of sorts that makes all the right noises but is so scary because of the unbalance in what's left . Surely something one day must give ? This is what I expect terrifies them , to loose that charisma . So its held onto long after other things have left ; vitality , sparkle or humour . Its the combination of what remains to the end that's so disturbing . To see it in a package of physical decay and old age seems to me so nightmarish ...