Looks! Can Be So Deceiving Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Looks can be,
Extremely deceiving.
Ask anyone,
Who has a facelift done.
A nip and tuck on thighs and hips.
Wearing a weave.
Leaving many horses,
Left without their tails grieving.
And limping from squeezing feet,
Much too big.
Although claiming to be able,
To wear the same size shoe...
They did when a kid.
Tell them after years,
Not to have seen them at all.
That they must be...
The great granddaughter,
Of someone you had known...
In high school.
Back in the mid 1960s!

"Hello.
Excuse me gorgeous.
But...
You remind me of this very young girl,
I have not seen.
In more than 60 years.
Remarkable is the resemblance."

-Will you stop that.
Just how old do you think I am? -

"Let's see.
Even after all that stuff you had done,
I would say...
Either 67 or 68."

-Are you kidding?
That's my grandmother.
She and I look exactly like 'her' mother.
Your ex-wife.-

"Nooo?
No way? "

-Yes.
And...
I recognized you as well.
You must be in your 70s? -

"Who me?
No.
But I do pray everyday,
To find that miracle...
You,
Your grandmother...
And great grandmother found.
Would you happen to have the name of it? "