Jay Lo and Betty White

Is a rough character to play…

You no longer get the cat calls…

Too young to be consider a

Distinguished elder…

The wrinkles creep in… never to leave

Hair turns a color that no one

Wants…unless it’s Snow White

But Mousey grey just isn’t in anyone’s

Crayola box…

So you go to the bottle for help

And come up somewhere on one

Side of a Zebra…smudged, baylaged

Two toned or blonde with brown roots…

Then you decide the time and money

Is no longer worth the effort and time…

Let it go grey or white…

Hoping your hairdresser and stylist

Can keep you relevant in the eyes

Of your family…

I remember the day my aunt

Turned up at Sunday dinner with a

Blue/Purple rinse… we then noticed

All the women her age must have the

Same beautician as you would start

Seeing a sea of purple heads in the

Congregations of most churches…

Hats were gone… the purple rinse

Was in…

Today I use a purple rinse to keep the

Yellow from 2nd hand smoke, out of

my white hair …

During this pandemic it’s been easy

To grow white, long hair…

No where to go and no one to see…

Because of catching COVID…

So many in our age group have

Found ‘You Tubers’ …

Teaching how to conceal our

Wrinkles with pore fillers, highlighters,

Bronzers and get smooth figures

Somewhere between…

With elastic under-garments

That contort your fat to fill hollow spots

Which on me exits in my ears and between

My toes…

Love the ads during ball games

Where we try to explain to our

grandchildren what ED is…and the

Purple pill to cure it obtained on the

Internet…. or whether I wear depends

For Incontinence that all women need…

In this day and age I’m happy to be married

To my high school sweetheart…

Whose eyes are aging as my boobs sag,

And my body resembling the stuffed Turkey

Before it’s roasted…

Constantly telling me I look as good

As the day he met me…

And remembering our parish priest saying

Lasting marriages are built on

Little white lies..

As I no longer want to be living in

The next season of “Sex and the City”…

Somewhere between

Jay Lo and Betty White….