Nose Job
The precipitant of my angst is this macro of my nose.
I didn’t vie for this when my friend asked me to pose.
I thought she’d use my profile in a locket or some token,
not knowing that she’d use it for purposes unspoken.
If she had told me earlier what the shot was for,
I would not have been compliant. I’d have shown her to the door.
It’s true my nose is cone-shaped, but no one has ever rated it,
disparaged it or laughed at it or scoffed at or debated it.
So, her dad’s a plastic surgeon and what did he use it for?
Someone else the “after,” and my nose the “before!!!”
Yesterday a letter came–inside two hundred bucks
for my rights to the photo from the clinic mucky-mucks.
I’ve discovered I’m no beauty, and yet I’m charmed in life.
I just got a “nose job” without suffering the knife!!
I didn’t vie for this when my friend asked me to pose.
I thought she’d use my profile in a locket or some token,
not knowing that she’d use it for purposes unspoken.
If she had told me earlier what the shot was for,
I would not have been compliant. I’d have shown her to the door.
It’s true my nose is cone-shaped, but no one has ever rated it,
disparaged it or laughed at it or scoffed at or debated it.
So, her dad’s a plastic surgeon and what did he use it for?
Someone else the “after,” and my nose the “before!!!”
Yesterday a letter came–inside two hundred bucks
for my rights to the photo from the clinic mucky-mucks.
I’ve discovered I’m no beauty, and yet I’m charmed in life.
I just got a “nose job” without suffering the knife!!
Today’s prompt words are macro, profile, precipitant, cone and unspoken.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I know it’s not your nose, Judy, but it’s still funny.
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The nose or the poem????
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Ha! The poem, of course.
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This is so clever, Judy and funny. “On the nose,” as it were.
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Haha — so that’s how they create those ‘perfect’ fake after shots!
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Did you know you can see your nose all the time it’s just your brain blocks it out…..
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Oh great.. now you’ve given me yet another thing to concentrate on! You are right. Never thought of this again.
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😀 😀
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Lol!
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I’d rather be the “after” than the “before.”
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I think most would..
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