Afraid, insecure, self-rejecting
Hope sought in peels and injecting
Age defying (age is sin)
de Beauvoir’s gains are in the bin
Medicalisation of nature’s ways
Maintains doctors in good pay
A little wounding with the knife
Promising happiness, ending strife
Glabellar creases, cavitied cheeks
— how dare you walk the city streets!
New medical terminology
Deforming our normality
As gerontological variation
Undergoes a swift ablation
And primum non nocere
Is abandoned to its decay
Coffins lie with pale corpses —
Botox ruined by rigor mortis
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