Short Salon Poems

Hurricanes scour 
everything they touch, 
then rinse and 
blow dry....

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'Salon reflected in 19thcenury vase'*
Mcdermott&McGough divert our gaze...

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same sound of scissors
in barber salon, locks of
some black and gray hair...

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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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French painter Phillipe Rousseau
with still life had a go
Paris salon medals one two three
& Knight d'honeur was to be...

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salon perfect hair
expensive haute couture clothes
kitchen seldom used
maids always kept house spotless          
we were polite ornaments...

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The cowboy rode a bucking horse
He tried holding but was toss
Through a salon door
Rump busted his core
That horse strictly showed him who's boss...

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A young spalpeen named Max,
Had hair growing like steroided flax,
He sat in the salon chair
The barber looking on in despair,
Saying, "Wait here, I'll just get my axe."...

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In the club, everything is the same:
        Lounge, tables, chairs,
        music playing..
     Only people weren't
     the same... They went to
     to the salon, longing...!...

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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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Fred heard his new crush loved men with red hair
And went next door to a salon called Flare
Now dyed red for his new date
Valentine's Day he couldn't wait
Until the back of his head was left bare...

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Submission so complete and fragile like nylon
Love so new, constantly refreshed in the salon
such virtue suffers the kill
creating a devastating skill
for guts to replace passion and fill the gallon....

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she mailed me her
exact words were:

Later today
i'm going before
the beauty salon
to regulate
my fingernails
and some eye
lashes.

surely they will
pardon her
for good
behavior
and sheer
beauty...

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I look after a lady named Helen

      Whom I bring roses by the gallon,

      They make her smile
     and feel better for a while.

      Now her room smells like the very best salon!



19-11-2008...

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Nails
Tool box
Where’s the hammer?
They take a good pounding.
Nails

Nails
Women speak
A good salon
Painted, polished, and glossed.
Nails

Nails
Lone tool
My worst nightmare
Clawing out of coffin
Nails...

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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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massaging my hands
somewhat like a lost lover
     at the nail salon



AP: 3rd place 2021

Submitted on January 12, 2021 for contest SENRYU - HUMOROUS, SATIRICAL or DARK sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on August 5, 2018...

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Only one
of my assets
qualifies
as glory crown.
Pampered hair
plumps my ego
and has drained my pockets dry.

Permanents,
dyes and rinses,
cuts and sets
salon shampoos,
never missed
hair appointments,
as if it matters at end..

6/15/12

Crown of my Body..A Whitney contest...

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I hear voices,
                plant language
                 of the trees...
                 dead wood
                 in the salon of my
                   House...
                 I sinner,
                  I predator...
                 I do not mind...
                 doesn't matter should i...!?...

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Look closely
between the bars.

   Look at
     pain, angst, hunger
       businesses idled.

             A prison
             enough --
             her empty
             salon.

Bills mount up
employees
look elsewhere for work.
    
     "Law's broken; I've spoken -
                 Jail!"

I see blind men,
Look closely.

May 8, 2020...

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she mastered her destiny, implementing thoughts of the perfect recipe. Crafted with a careful 
eye, her goals will not be denied. She breathed the gift of life, and marveled at its 
presence, in the creation lies her essence, style blended with grace, like a goddess who 
wields her title effortlessly, what more can you expect from the creator of salon destiny.....

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Brendon earns his bread and butter
as an artist at Anna's -
Anna's Beauty Salon. 
He places the smock across my shoulders
as if it were a feathered gown; 
I feel resplendent already.
Removing the pencil from my messy bun,
he unfastens my hair with
hungry hands. 
His fingers dance with intrigue like the
balloons bobbing on the mirror..

He is the cat and I am his cream....

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   I've never had a manicure
     and yet I'm still a man
   Though my fingernails are ugly
     you should see my tan

   Please don't suggest a pedicure
     I don't need lovely toes
   Fishing knee-deep in the river
     they're apt to decompose

   So I eschew the 'hair salon'
     for ye old-fashioned barber shop
   Where my man Floyd still uses
     scissors, broom and mop
...

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beauty salon gossip,
or presidential debate ...
Laundress conversation,
or trump x joe ?
Will  It be :
Socialism where "scarcity of everything"
or liberal Chevrolet fish tail?
Which team are you fan of?
Proud boys
or chicago boys ¹
Stick Man Brothers
or barred at the ball?
cheap proselytism for leeches
or expensive pleasure for the ignorant?
what will it be, how will it be?



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out on my legs
little shaky
little flaky
achy

blue jay scolding
it sees my weak ankle
it knows

mercilessly mocking

got to walk
car at the nail salon
stalk my own steps
slow way to go

been
ballet dancing
in a barrel of beer

fell out of bed
inside a dream like that

i am lame
swollen

holding up
hanging on

manfully
i stumble onward
to Brannigan's Bar....

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