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
lookin...
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Categories:
cowlicks, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
50's Hair, If You Dare
...Crewcuts, flattops, pompadours
Cowlicks, ducktails, side parts
Clean cuts, Ivy Leagues, slick-backs
Where have all these hairstyles gone
No longer do the cute chicks fawn ......
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Categories:
cowlicks, hair, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Nature: Volunteer Firefighters
..."The fire has crossed containment lines,
Dunns Road has just been breached,
Emergency vehicles have withdrawn,
You cannot be reached",
Local radio announces every minute,
Evacuation roads are sh...
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Categories:
cowlicks, feelings, fire, society,
Form: Quatrain
I Hack Away Happily At My Hair
...I cut my hair wildly, for there is so much.
I can chop and dice, and split and splice
Even when I have bald spots no one sees them
Because I dye my scalp to match my hair.
Anyway this is the il...
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Categories:
cowlicks, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dancing On the Fourth of July
...All that hair
trapped in a braid
silver to the waist
Opal this morning
nude in the mirror
brings the braid up
between her breasts
and around her neck,
a python of her creation
that she ...
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Categories:
cowlicks, july,
Form: Blank verse
Sequined Asses
...My yard thrives in wildness.
Patches of dirt- cowlicks of grass.
Every shade of unknown flowers.
My yard is a swayback horse.
Amidst rows of sequined asses
That live just up the hill.
Their l...
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Categories:
cowlicks, life,
Form: Rhyme
Rugby Scrum Dance For Divorced and Disabused Wedding Guests
...Rugby SCRUM* DANCE for Divorced and Dis-abused Wedding Guests
(Packs made up of eight « players » (see note below) may be formed indifferently : either segregate the sexes or mix them up. No sweat !...
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Categories:
cowlicks, dance,
Form: Free verse
Fertilizer
...The wrath of God doesn’t have to be
the size of a hurricane
nor a major flood or forest fire
to leave us all in pain.
It can be an itch or an annoying twitch
a big black hair on your nose
painfully ...
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Categories:
cowlicks, faith, funny, god, god,
Form: Quatrain
Back Swak
...A loud clap in a text of a digital tap and a message that read out loud,
"hey nerd, this isn't a test--SWAK back! and be proud!"
Oh god the cornman's back and Agent 22 in his tan shorts too,
wit...
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Categories:
cowlicks, fantasy
Form: I do not know?