Sheila Charles WE CAN TAKE TWENTY YEARS OFF YOUR FACE
A friend gave me some old Listeners. I enjoy most of the article. Yes.
I read them in the T.V. ads. A bad habit of mine, I confess.
The front cover had, written boldly in black
WE CAN TAKE TWENTY YEARS OFF YOUR FAC
I found that every interesting.
Was it something that I could embrace?
Mind you, when I read the prices that put me off a bit.
It could cost anything up to a thousand dollars. I nearly threw a fit!
Botox was the cheapest at a hundred dollars or more
But it only lasted six months. I might not want an encore!
But I could HAVE to HAVE another lot if the result was an syesore.
What would be the point of your face being young
If your neck looked scraggy and old?
You’d need a whole body makeover.
That could be a sight to behold!
AND one would have to behave differently.
How would that work out?
Can a sixty year old behave like a forty year old?
That’s something I very much doubt.
I’m seventy, give or take a few years.
If I looked as if I were fifty,
I’d have to keep lying about my age.
Folk might accuse me of being a bit shifty.
And I have to admit, the only reason
I even gave it a thought,
Was I went out last night for a meal in a pub
And, to cut a long story short,
A man mistook my daughter for my granddaughter. He sis. Yes!
So I thought maybe if I looked younger, I’d look like her mum, more or less!
Thus, no-one would make that same mistake.
My daughter said, “I don’t care, GRANMA>
Why does it bother you what one
Inebriated man said at the bar?”
illustration by ume-nori
