Blue Moon

We’re having a blue moon tonight, and we won’t have another one on New Year’s Eve until 2028 when I’ll be picking up some extra cash doing Wilfred Brimley impersonations at the local mall.That’s the sin of it all right, the way we girls all talk ourselves down. I went to the beach and the pool at 15 and 19 and 22 and counted myself round, homely, altogether unlovable… Now I  look back at the pictures of myself in those days with my shiny dark hair and skin all smooth and that rounded cheek of youth that Meg Ryan will never get back no matter how much plastic surgery she has (and if God made a more adorable young woman I’d like to know who she is.)What a waste not to know when you have it good! How blind and foolish and altogether human.Look at Meg back in the days of When  Harry Met Sally Days  up top here.Now look at her today.Some say her mouth looks like the Joker's. she definitely let them fiddle with it.Now if you dare check her out at the beach just a few days ago. I may be embarrassed by the jutting mantelpiece I 've been carrying around since age 12 and now I won't show my bare arms to anyone but my doctor and not even my doctor  come to think of it but look what happens when you lose TOO much weight and the lathe shows right through the plaster. Poor Meg all ribs and a sternum. Poor all of us, so much fruit slowly softening in the bowl.