What The Barber Thinks... Poem by Dónall Dempsey

WHAT THE BARBER THINKS...

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goes his mind

cutting through thought
with the voice of the scissors

his hands
two sparrows

dancing with Time

each head
a changing field

now flowing wheat
now bare stubble

his mind
taking flight

taking off
the too much there

dealing with
the not enough here

the making beautiful
the altering appearances

the human touch
the kindest cut

but where
(you want to know)

where does the barber's mind go
& what are his thinkings?

Ahhhh my friends
sure that would be

telling you...