To preserve the loveliness of your once-bonnie brown hair
you dyed it a
color that nature never knew
To restore your lovely figure
you spent
thousands on surgery that quickly proved worthless
To combat the wrinkles, without success
you smeared
on expensive creams and got botoxed as well
To renew the vigor you only imagined you once knew
you swallowed
many costly, yet unproven supplements
To mitigate your unwanted increase in maturity
you piled on
the large and expensive gold jewelry
To remain attractive and appealing within the confines of
your mind
you financed
new, fancier cars as often as possible
To try and become sleek and fit and to lose the guilt from
your awful diet
You drove twice
a week to spend 20 minutes watching TV strolling on a treadmill
To weigh little more than you did as a teen seemed like a
great triumph
Ignoring the
fact that wrinkled fat is far bulkier than lean muscle
To combat your ever-lightening skin
you sought
out the sun and attained that leathery, reptilian look
To watch your weight and retain your appeal
you exposed
every bone in your anorexic face
To compensate for the diets which quite utterly failed
your forced
your hair to grow bigger, stiffened up with industrial gel
To keep pace with your rapidly fading sense of smell
you sprayed
on ever more sickeningly sweet but costly perfume
To realize the full creative human potential locked there
within you
you took a
six week self-renewal course and went on a few horseback rides
To renew your attractiveness after being dumped and rejected
you joined a
gym and lost 10 pounds til you found another chump
To try and hide the wrinkles, the sags and your bags
you troweled
on many coats of concrete-like beauty plaster
To keep from having to face the void that so clearly
beckoned
you learned
to cope by blankly flipping channels
To have it all you burned both ends as you stewed in the
middle
your were
worn out too soon and then dried up way too fast
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