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Is there a thing as phantom pain

For one’s missing hair?

Feels like a spider walking around

Behind my left ear there!

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I had my hair professionally done,

It cost a decent dime…

But it looks and smells so good

I’m glad I took the time.

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Normally, I’ll buzz cut myself,

Without a mirror I need my wife….

To tell me where are tufts I have missed

Or be embarrassed by not looking right.

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On the way out from the barbershop,

A woman honked and waved….

She called out “see you, Honey”, I thought

What a nice looking friend I had made!

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But she was calling to her daughter

Who had driven away a moment before…

If her daughter was a pretty as she was,

I wouldn’t have minded seeing more.

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I let her red car go past me

As I walked along the downtown…

The breeze felt good on my newly shorn head,

So I really let my hair down(?)!

 

–Jonathan Caswell