a moustache to make jokes on
a hairy reminder to keep laughing
tickling your lower lip,
a male entitlement
a reminder of his beastliness…
we stop a guy on the street
for directions,
he doesn’t recognize the intersection,
I say, I’ve left a car there, parked
but he doesn’t think those two meet,
was there construction?
I say, I do remember a crane,
he says, Oh, there’s a crane just up there,
go one more block and turn right,
and my kid and I walk away and she says,
He had red hair, looked a bit like Conan
(her favourite tv personality)
and she says, he had quite the moustache,
what is Movember anyway?
I say, its a campaign for men to grow moustaches in November.
Mo-vember, my words slur and I suddenly can’t say the name right anymore.
No-vember. NO! vember, which translated to me meaning, Don’t Remember!
I kind of cultural black out, celebrated on Black Friday(tm)
and proceeded by Black History Month, coming up,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We find our car,
a rental, nice car,
she likes it
and we are different people
after zipping around in it all day.
She can’t believe I parked it so well,
(there was a crane) and when I get home I tell,
my honey about the scraped bummer
I stressed about all day,
why DO they make them so low anyway?
We play a game driving through the streets,
“identify the #Occupy protester in the street”
I have her beat cause we only see one,
dressed in pyjamas & shorts
and looking like he snorts
cocaine.
He’s got facial hair,
but I don’t care
cuz I once knew a bearded lady named
A Y L A.