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May 1, 2014 Day #78 Monologue Mania by Janet S. Tiger (c) 2014
Yay for New Wrinkles!
(for the Senior Channel)
by Janet S. Tiger
© 2014 all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com (The
older gentleman from Day 9 and Day 22 returns - with another idea he
is very excited about. He strides onstage purposefully and faces the
camera and studio audience. He is holding a mirror in one hand.)
Ladies
and gentlemen - I welcome you to the continuing Senior Channel show
which highlights our problems and how to solve them. Since I have a
great deal more time to think about things than when I was younger, I
have been pondering a new issue, a new fight for us.
And it's literally staring us right in the face.
(He holds up the mirror)
I see 'em.....there they are......(booms) WRINKLES!
And
when you say new wrinkles, I think that's one of those phrases like
jumbo shrimp.....New Wrinkles! A wrinkle by its very definition
is....old!
But with wrinkles, I am just
scratching the sagging skin surface......I want everyone here to think
about wrinkles.....and how they have become a symbol of a subtle, but
ubiquitous ageist attitude that all seniors face!
Still
don't get it? Everyone here has heard the ads for ANTI- wrinkles,
right? Well, if wrinkles are a sign of deepening wisdom - why the urge
to get rid of them?
Why not have a brand new cream - PRO- wrinkle cream!
It
wouldn't have to be a cream, it could just be someone calling you up
to remind you how old you are - with a new photo every day! And then
another angle would be to have teams cataloging all the things you can
worry about - personal AND global - now that's a way to make those
wrinkles hatch like eggs on a KFC farm!
And we
could protest all those young, smooth-skinned people in the ads! We
could even kidnap one and take photos to show how old and wrinkled she
really is without makeup!
(Listens)
Sorry, didn't mean to advocate kidnapping....just a joke, there, folks, to illustrate my main point.
Which
is - if wisdom is gained through age, and wrinkles are the gift we
get, why is the present so ridiculed? In other times, people revered
age - wrinkles indicated you had survived! Now, the object is to look
young forever! What's next? Actually living forever?
(He takes a deep breath to calm down)
So
I am suggesting that we protest where it hurts them the most - we stop
buying all the wrinkle creams.... and age-defying systems that are just
more expensive wrinkle creams, and we launch a march on Washington to
protest the treatment of wrinkles! Better yet, not a march, but a
marathon run......(thinks)....ok, maybe a 5K.......
And the name would be........
(He spreads his arms wide, beaming)
The Wrinkle Run!
(He turns and starts to jog off, looks back)
You can sign up on my website - Pro-Wrinkle Seniors - Take Back the Skin! Dot com.
(He exits. The end of this wrinkle.)
Janet S. Tiger 858-274-9678
www.JanetSTiger.weebly.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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