Savvy Article – Climatopause

Written in response to an article implying that climate change is responsible for hair loss in men.

I’m feeling it: waves of anxiety run through my inners like slow-cutting knives; my golden-orange locks thin out, to make way for razor-blade edges of silver-white; and I’m all clammy, alternately baked hot and frozen cold,

I’m nearly fifty years old.

The menopause?

No, no! Not the menopause – I am far too significant to fall prey to this monster of men! For a start, then I am a woman, so how can this man-beast have anything to do with me?

It doesn’t. Does it?

Look at me (if you really have to), and you will see:

•  the tidal waves of an Indian Ocean tsunami
• the orange trees of your last Spanish getaway
•  the grey sludge of car tyres in snow
•  the roasties from your freezer, reheated

If not the menopause, then what exactly is it? What kind of a man-beast eats away at my soul?

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 10th October, 2019 

Image adapted from Khusen Rustamov of Pixabay

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