Lonely Shave

[Delta40]

Talking about the past with myself
is like shaving grandma's legs
with that Phillips Ladyshave
I won from the Partridge Family.
The shearing blades seized up years ago
and after so many re-runs,
you just keep on gnashing its blunt teeth
across varicose veins again and again.
Why don't I twirl my fingers through
the curly wurly cord as if my name was Cindy
and remain a child instead?
Face it. The switch is faulty now
and won't yield the results you long for.
It splutters, coughs out clouds of
hair and old spice whiskers.
Nothing more.
I give my history the dullest short back and sides
then dot it with tissues to soak up the blood,
No moisturizer will ever smooth out these sharp bristles.
Or even the here and now.

[everyadventure]

"It splutters, coughs out clouds of
hair and old spice whiskers."

*Shudder* So descriptive, it's making me sneeze. Eww.

[everyadventure]

PS I am extraordinarily fond of your sock puppet.

[Delta40]

Sock Puppet likes you too EA

[PrinceMyshkin]

It's as if there are all these hyper-charged wires criss-crossing your brain and they're sparking each other non-stop! Brilliant metaphor in and of itself & in terms of what it represents!!!!!

[MystyrMystyry]

I must say that made my feel decidedly queasy Delta - it should have come with a warning

[zoolane]

Just think that I will be legs one day.Yuck!

[Jerrybaldy]

If you will forgive me , its classic kitchen sink Delta. Unashamed blend of metaphor and the mundane and forever feminine

[Haunted]

Graphic, funny, and painful. Everything I expected of you. Great going Delta.