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Showing posts with label poem barber straight razor. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Poem About the Razor's Edge


The Irish Barber
had an assistant
who liked to talk
to his wife
as he cut hair
with a special shiny
straight razor.
And as talking
became arguing,
shaving became
butchering,
and I left the shoppe
short a half-pound
of flesh.
But up one bad haircut.