Artist's Chair Barber's Palette
twilight gray
falls to the floor
the senior color
Sherwin Williams
says twilight gray
warms the rat he reads
the bible to his grandkids
and tells lesbian jokes to his
straight granddaughters over eighteen
Benjamin Moore
walks in with a
newspaper and a cup
of starbucks loaded with
a sugar clash he says tastes
like turpentine eider white
falls to the floor the senior
color
Dupont brings
in a boring paint brochure
silvermist falls to the
floor the senior color
in walks Valspar
boasting the tagline
the varnish that won't turn white
peppercorn falls to the floor the
senior color
Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist
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Reminds me of the time, many years ago, when I stopped in a barbershop in a residential district in Morgantown, West Virginia just as I was beginning my doctoral studies. The old codgers in the shop were busy discussing n**g*rs and making derogatory jokes here and there. After I got my hair cut, I made sure they never got my business again.
Ron