WWJD: Men and Mustaches II
Upon reflection, the assembly line and the concentration camp both have the goal of "sameness", and they both lead to death, of different sorts.
Perhaps my aversion to the mustache has been caused by those silly public school administrators in their "suits", with their "management techniques", their "budget concerns" and their "emasculated lives". Mustaches used to be cool. This guy, who hung out with the worst trash, liars, junkies and whores, had radical hair.
"Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen"
All the kids in the sixties emulated him and then they became everybody's trash. Fathers wearing tiny mustaches disowned sons who later, on the assembly line to Vietnam, watched their flowing hair fall to the ground.
Have all the melting clocks and dismembered limbs taught us nothing?!
This hair bias has to go. Men shave their backs, women wax off pubic hair, becoming little girls for men who are as smooth as women. Mustaches scruffy meticulous scratchy bushy pencil-thin curvy unruly long manly dashing funny and human and natural.
It's all good.
4 Comments:
I actually like mustaches...well I prefer beards but I do like 'em!
Me too! (I bet your dad had one, didn't he?)
MJ, you're a really, really gifted writer --- you know that, don't you?
I woke up this morning and realized I ought to tell you that, just so you don't forget.
Thanks, friend. I needed that.
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