Thank God For Sunscreen

By Avery Jorgensen

Thank God we invented sunscreen

So that the lifespan of our skin is doubled

Thank God we’ve developed red light masks

And dermal filler

And buccal fat removal

So that we can truly say 

“Thirty is the new twenty!”

Thank God we’ve discovered every chemical that can smooth wrinkles

And every makeup formula that can camouflage blemishes

And every dye that can hide our gray hairs

And that we’ve put them all into millions of plastic containers

So that they too can last just a little longer

Thank God we all look so young

It means we might pity each other in the end

“What a shame, we had out whole lives ahead of us”

Our sunscreen won’t protect us when the world burns

Our beauty won’t make us any less mortal

We will all die at once, together

But we will all be so beautiful 

And we will all look so young

By Avery Jorgensen