cool kids at school
mop tops,
pompadours,
hippie hair,
afros …
me?
a crew cut—
really, dad?
~~~*
Dec 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM UTC
cool kids at school
mop tops,
pompadours,
hippie hair,
afros …
me?
a crew cut—
really, dad?
~~~*
Free-verse. ©️ 2025 Mark Toney— I had just started Junior High School (a.k.a. Middle School) and was grooving to a way cooler vibe than I had ever experienced in Elementary School, until the weekend my dad decided my hair was too long and he was going to cut it. I tried my best to convince him to let me go to the barber shop as I had been doing, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. So I spent 5 minutes explaining how I wanted it cut as he stood there pretending to listen. Then he put the barber cape around my shoulders, turned on the clippers and proceeded to run them without a guide over the top of my head. One deep furrow down to the scalp. “This should last you for a while,” he said with a laugh, ignoring my protests as he finished the ***** deed. — In the spirit of full disclosure, I had crew cuts the first ten years of my life; but this was the mid-1960s and I was a teen. Not cool, Dad.
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