Reality of Fakery

...too funny, Rett! But it's also way to true! I thought you did a pretty good job keeping to the structure of the poem. However I kind of liked the ending the way you had it before the changes to the bottom. However, I like this ending tho too. I just sometimes like to be left to question these ideals for my self. Much respect, Corey

I love the title..I think this is too true and sad..and yet I sit an laugh..there must be something wrong with me *lol* I agree with ~C~ the structure is consistent I didn't see what it was before but I like it like this. Jen

As I get older my only vanity is a little makeup I am happy to let nature take its course and age with grace lifes painful enough without putting your body through more torture , ok I rambled LOL sorry Rett its 4am .. but this is the reality of todays society unfortunatley ... Love Jayne x x "We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall" ...

my favorite lines: Are your ankles now called cankles/Doesn’t all this make you rankle? We were just talking at work last week about people getting surgery on their toes to make them look more delicate. That was the first I heard about cankles. A lady came to the hospital the other day in a stretcher. I thought, "Why is that 40-ish woman so frail?" Turns out she was 70 but had a lot of work done. Yikes!

This is so well written with an underlying sense of humor yet with a message very clear and precise.Thank you for this one.

It will never end! What's next I'll tell you, and out and out trade! Look at the advances in cloning, We'll never know who we're meeting in the street anymore. thanks, Eddie

i would do lipo to get rid of the guy and double chin Chin implant for little weak chin nose reduction from long beak I have small fill in the potholes from acne scars This can be done Ive been told I had terrible acne new teeth they can rip out the old ones and false or those ones on posts Only if I won the lottery at least over five hundred thousand Some tanning sessions so i look one colour instead of the brown Ojibway arms and pale face cheek implants instead of the angular flat not big something with this Dracula peak on top brown contacts to cover these creepy blue some reduction to folds above eyes tatoo some eyelashs in have puny ones im stuck with scars on face from car crash as youth stupid youth damn im poor and I was starting to look half decent ha seriously Poor Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love sad

You made me LAUGH OUT LOUD Rett, with this cry of what? Disgust, or surprise, its so unreal, I have stayed in my shape as I am and accepted it, but then I cannot complain it has been okay for me, I wasn't too fat ever, I wasn't 'given' a face with a squiffy nose, or a belly button that wished for a walk, so I can't talk!! So now I do not laugh. Ann of Norway P.S. It is worse for those who have terribly distorting accidents, that is so understandable.

Rett You made me laugh out loud I really needed this Thank you so much. As for me I am sure we all think about changing this and that. For me a few inches taller maybe but i am content with myself.Nip and tuck would be fine but how many times would this have to be done? I think people should be happy with them selves not what others think. Changes for me should only be if it is mediacal or life threatening etc. I think a lot of people give in to peer pressure no matter what age they are they should stand up and be themselves. This is what i do and if someone else does not like it it is there problem. As long as I am happy with me that is all that counts. No one is ever happy with themselves But Be true to yourself. Still smiling Blue

in what you have written here, Rett. For many maybe, but I prefer to proudly sport every grey hair, every wrinkle and every scar; each a badge of honor, each one a medal showing where I've been and perhaps more importantly, what I've been through. Life's souveniers... Thanks for the chuckle my friend! I miss you. Tom

I know it's gonna be hard fella for you to think that this may happen to you one day, but to write about it in such a good way is really going to release the pressure when this age thing comes to you, then you can reflect and maybe try some of these but I guess it is a way off yet LOL, Yours with great respect to my youngers, Ian.T PS:- Rett Respected poet with a true verse eye Exceptional man of high standing we cry Teacher of words that ring through time Together with us on this journey divine

This amazingly funny and contorted view of body artificiality, entices the reader to continue the stony and resounding road of the poem. In the end you question, ironically, the validity of it all, without self serving pride. Is it the way, really, in which people of the future could end up trashing their dignity? I guess very few will carry this fantastic prescription for altered self image to the very extreme. I hope so. Regards, Hugo.

R(h)ett, darling, You wouldn't be putting me on would ya? Us stories never get old.. just torn and frayed at the "seems"... gone with the wind. love, Scarlet "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is wound up in mine, then let us work together." Aboriginal Activist Group, Queensland, 1970's

Good take Rett, real, funny, real funny that is... ya I am corny. Great comments to. But I must have been gone awhile, I am not sure I have read anything else from you that resembles it. Yes I have been gone awhile... Good read. D.D.

This was just a great read, great rhythm... a funny statement on the sad state of society. I'm dismayed at the lengths people will go to in order to appear "perfect" and young. Aging is a beautiful process, and I have no desire to look younger than I do (amazingly). I love the way you string your words together. I have to admit, though, in the 3rd verse, my mind said "intervention" where you have "convention." Which is odd, because by syllables, convention fits better than intervention, but when I read it out loud, I like the sound of intervention. Just some ramblings 8) This was a great read!