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Open Poetry #29

At The Barber Shop

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

0 posted 2003-10-18 09:05 PM

The old Negro
lurches stoop-shouldered
through the barber shop,
leaving shoe polish fingerprints
on the Coke bottles.

Great mounts of hair
shift noiselessly
into corner piles.

And the negro
periodically
sweeps them into one,
It takes too long to separate
the black from the blond.

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

1 posted 2003-10-18 09:05 PM

Wrote this a number of years ago...wonder if anything has changed??
Larry

SharaRose
Member Elite

since 2003-07-19

Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~

2 posted 2003-10-18 10:26 PM

hehe..I like. Cute one! Does it really matter? I mean to seperate them, that is.
Love,
Terri~

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

3 posted 2003-10-19 11:04 AM

We do things better these days....there's an automaton animated by fuzzy logic that makes quick work of this! Heck, lately it's even parsing gray from blonde, and separating the black ones by texture....to celebrate diversity.

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