Barber Shop, Beauty Shop

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Barber Shop, Beauty ShopI checked my watch in Charlie's barber chairhadda get my wife after he trimmed my hairole Charlie had an eyebrow over his chiclet smilehair and years scattered on his checkered tiletold him this might be my last cut n shavecos we were thinkin' of moving awaywell, I couldn't make out his tearsin that foggy old mirrorbut his face in that brass spittoon made 'em clearArmy-Navy game on his Philco radiosigned picture on the wall of Smokin' Joetwo bullet holes in the silent cuckoo clockGod, I was gonna miss Charlie's Barber Shopwell, Sadie leaned my wife's head over the sinkthe walls in her salon were a band-aid pinkmy wife said she was expecting in Mayand we were thinking of moving awaysomewhere north to a bigger communitywhere children have more opportunitiesSadie said we've got no condos or Kinko'sjust green grass with plastic flamingosbut we'll sure miss you at Friday bingoSadie showed photos of a boy dressed in greensaid he became a state trooper after the Marinesmy wife blamed the shampoo for her teardropsbut God...she was gonna miss Sadie's Beauty Shopthen I gave Charlie a ride over to Sadie'sand we went out for dinner with our ladiesman, what's that been...at least ten years on the windI'll pick up my wife after my boy and I get a trimat Charlie's Barber ShopCharlie's Barber Shop(c)2005 Robert George