How To Cut Your Husband's Hair - NaPoWriMo Day 1

Monday, April 1, 2019

Prompt:  Instructions

How to Cut Your Husband's Hair

It will seem like a regular evening.
After a nice supper
You'll be sitting on your
Sides of the couch
Maybe you'll each have a book
Or you'll watch TV
Or be on your phones playing 
Words With Friends with each other
While the Scrabble board sits 
On the game shelf.
And you might look over at him
And think, Oh, he's cute
In his little glasses and the 
Soft greys sprinkled through
His still dark hair and eyebrows
And one side of his chest.
And you might remember 
That in 1979 his hair was long and
Thick and parted in the middle 
And beautiful and 
Was the perfect complement to the
Black velvet suit and wide red tie.
And you might take a moment to say a
Little prayer of thanks that
Your children were blessed with his hair
And his no-nonsense approach to life
And he might notice you noticing
And he'll look over and say, "Hey,
Would you want to cut my hair tonight?"
And you'll think of taking the clippers
To the soft hair that really is
The perfect length at this very moment
And how the clippers will turn him into 
Gus Grissom
And how, even through you've cut his hair
Every six weeks or so for
The last three years it
Still makes you nervous to take that 
First swipe and watch the tufts of
Hair fall from the clippers into his
Cupped and waiting hands
And even though it drives you a little crazy
When he reminds you 
As he always does of which
Number comb to snap onto the clippers
For which part of his head
And even when you pull a $20 from
Your purse and slap it on the counter and say "Here,
Go to a f*&#ing barber," when he
Smiles at you and says "But I like when
You cut my hair" you say
Sure. 

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