Peppermint Oil
carousing through the net & pausing to finger the thinning spots on his scalp
remembering the moments when women in his earlier life would run their fingers through the flowing locks---
having watched his compadres become cue-balls or
slowly peppering away individuals on their way to
pure silver,
he stumbled upon an herbalist blog that
discussed pouring peppermint oil
upon his noggin to stimulate the follicles of
his hair
in hopes that he would be handsome again.
vanity provided the impetus to push our man in
question
to purchase his peppermint oil
and to dowse his head in the straight substance
in hopes of growing hair
throwing much caution to the wind
running with the advice of the
herbalist.
in no time at all his head began to cool
it cooled to the point of freezing & then the
freezing began to burn & then the burning
began to numb his whole head until the feeling
seemed to creep inside his throat
panging at his temples & he
found himself sitting on his
knees in front of the toilet
trying to make himself puke
but the sickness jerked at
him as if it would never
quite stop.
he stuck his index finger down his throat
forcing himself to vomit &
though the vomiting took his
mind off the sickening
numbness of his whole
head, it only did so for a few seconds---
he crawled on hands & knees to his bed,
laying there in a world of brand new pain
until morning when he awoke from a sleep he
somehow attained---
after rolling out of a skull-crashing dream
he threw away the oil &
not a hair grew anywhere near his head.
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2011
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