Soaking up the rays is an time-tested way
Of giving the appearance of endeepened café
But fair-skinned folks have procurred a fate
For the sloughing sunburns do incapacitate
Taletold sign of speckled-brown spots
For the solar scribe to connect the dots
Mistaken for a beet after baking in the sun
Is this agony some kind of masochistic fun
But burn we must a sacrificed bellwether
Melanin-bronzed with the feel of real leather