The Espresso Salon
He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.
“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”
He pours stout
with the weight of centuries.
Tries to explain The Bell Jar
like it’s a limited-edition craft IPA.
You raise a brow,
sip espresso
from a flamingo-shaped chalice,
and summon Virginia Woolf.
—
She floats in —
half disapproval, half divine fog
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Categories:
salon, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Medusa's At the Hair Salon
Mr. and Mrs. Medusa
Put their huge hats on their heads
To constrain their hair that always
Looks like they just got out of bed
They drove off to the hair salon
Even though they remembered
That when her mom asked long ago
For a trim, she got dismembered
Hey mister, said the stylist
If you are here to be groomed
With all that
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Categories:
salon, fun, hair, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
More Than a Hair Salon Widower
I'm loathe to agonize, but it's an issue guys!
Some cash wafts heaven sent, but spoils like excrement!
It's shops long hours that stink (are driving me to drink!)
I sit home long retired. She's younger, art inspired;
she loves her work's deft strokes on hair for gals (YES! BLOKES!)
Immediate cut's praise (while poet waits for days!
I drown in
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Categories:
salon, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
Memories of the Salon
He said what he had to say
to tell the story
He did what he had to do
to rescue time
He paid what he had to pay
to bribe the jailers
He gave what he had to give
—per Gertrude Stein
(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)
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Categories:
salon, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Salon of Forbidden Thought
The Salon of Forbidden Ideas
is a place where the free-thinkers go
to express their unsanctioned opinions
and explore what they aren't meant to know...
At twilight, they slip through the shadows
of the alley 'twixt Far-Left and Right,
wearing black masks and cloaks of red satin,
bearing lanterns of unfiltered light.
The door to the salon is fastened
with various fashions of locks---
each
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Categories:
salon, america, analogy, freedom, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Salon Or Saloon
i can quiff
you can
queef
but we
both
can
quaff and
so toast
i to you
and you to
anyone
you
want
to
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Categories:
salon, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Beauty Salon Adventure
Oh! My gosh. What is it with the girly girl
Adventure?
They say looking great is a lure
To capture
An amore. To me that's a whole other
Venture.
I am such an amateur.
I am not looking for any more pressure.
Now on to the brochure
Which supposedly has the beauty cure.
Their prices are not high on expenditures
It features
Hair cut to
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Categories:
salon, adventure, appreciation, beauty, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
'kimmy's Bliss 1' - a Hair and Nails Salon
Add #1
‘Kimmy's Bliss’ hair and nails will be coming and soon,
Find it easy to cry, hate to howl at the moon?
Well the ‘Kimmy's Bliss’ promise is "sheer hair delight,"
You will marvel that prices are not out of sight.
Add #2
‘Kimmy's Bliss’ isn’t flashy, a star in a jar,
In a ‘Hollywood Second’ blow past highest bar,
She's
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Categories:
salon, caregiving, happiness, humor, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Le Salon De Coiffure
Mon Dieu she shrieked, I watched him standing there,
Beneath the Gogh, the suit was Weatherill.
He sipped cognac (Eden de Gautier)
And on his arm some filly from Brazil.
You heard, of course, poor dear, she knew the drill.
What must she think: her dress, she wore Chanel,
The shoes, Vuitton, I thought were overkill
But then she smiled; I swear
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Categories:
salon, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Michael's Salon of Pits
People often say now I understand
When they hear that I'm from Paree
Not Gay Paree silly, but redneck
In the heart of Tennessee
I am the newest style of hairdressers
Here to lay out all the facts
I no longer work on the tops of heads
But straight out of the pits
It all happened when I got bored
With the every day
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Categories:
salon, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Jellystone Salon
Be bear aware
Be prepared
Bring bear spray
And a nail file, too
In case you see the bruin
And she wants you to style her hair
And while you're at it
You can give her a pedicure, too.
JB49
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Categories:
salon, funny, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Randomling 33: Salon Treatment
Hurricanes scour
everything they touch,
then rinse and
blow dry.
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Categories:
salon, beauty, storm, water, wind,
Form: Free verse
Claire's Hair Salon
Don't come here but please go there
For this is what I have to share
About our dear hairdresser Claire.
She'll never catch you in a snare
Because her prices are more than fair.
She will cut your hair layer by layer
And will not let your head go bald or bare
So there is no glare for us to stare
And she
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Categories:
salon, celebration, feelings, friendship, funny
Form: Rhyme
Salon
Salon
Vanity spewing unchecked to an unwillingly captive audience
"I am this and I did that", "look at me, me, me"!
"Make me pretty, I am pretty, I am aren't I"?
Maybe I am just tired or tainted
or just possibly because I am bald by choice
probably.
So much time spent on words without value
time that will never be retrieved
a seemingly
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Categories:
salon, introspection, social, may,
Form: Free verse
A Day At the Puppy Salon
I'm off to the puppy salon,
to get pampered and spoiled today,
all my pup smell will be gone,
my mom, says she likes it better that way,
they will fluff and dematt,
not sure I'll love that,
but then I'll be loving,
that warm bubble bath,
my groomer will trim me all up,
in a perfect lil pup cut,
she'll trim my nails, and
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Categories:
salon, animals,
Form: Rhyme
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