Hey Your Hair Is Sticking Up

Hey! Your hair is sticking up!
This news flash is from a seven-year-old.
I know, I tell him. It’s Dad hair.
I can’t do anything with it.
I have two cowlicks.
Sometimes they both stick up
looking like horns, which goes well with my personality.

You could comb it, my husband says.
He has bought me combs.
No idea where they are.
I have no interest in my hair or the hair of others.
So of course God made me the mother of three daughrers.
Two of them do their hair.
The other one is like me, we don't even like to wash it.

Tonight a male beautician asked me what I wanted.
I said “do whatever you want. I hate hair.”
“Great!” he said. “You will be the funkiest grandma in town.”
“I am already the funkiest grandma in town,” I informed him.
“Do a Mohawk. I don’t care.”
When he finished he said “I forgot to do the Mohawk.”
“That’s okay,” I told him. “My boss is conservative.”
But I did leave him a big tip
for not taking my advice.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Kingston Avatar
January 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM
I wan't to be the funkiest grandma in town, no fair! No grandchildren yet! As a kindergaten teacher, your poem reminded me of school picture day where each 5 year old was handed a comb as they lined up. Yikes, bad idea. Your poems are so true to life and tonight with a glass of wine, I am enjoying every smile and laugh they bring me. :-)
Krutsinger Avatar
January 24, 2023 at 5:46 AM
Thank you Marikate
Bauer Avatar
January 21, 2023 at 12:51 PM
it must be so cool to be the funkiest grandma in town, caren! i love the way you tell a story...
Krutsinger Avatar
January 21, 2023 at 11:05 PM
It is truly a blessing Ilene - you know that from experience.
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