beard – Brinkinfield

Not for Now

I choose to shave
in the mornings
Although I have also,
at other times of the day
In the evening, for example

But in the mornings
it feels right
At other times
generally-speaking,
I am less inclined
less,
motivated

Yes, this coat: a duffle coat, I’d had it a long time. Purchased on the high street of Camden Town in a basement-based, second-hand (sorry – vintage) clothes shop. This, long before you were born and only a short while after the Home Counties’ CB radio craze had died a sudden, faddish death.

Initially, despite access denied to a full length mirror, I liked it. Where the material made contact with the skin of my neck, creating a mild itchy sensation, this failed to dampen my ardour. My deficient colour vision could not identify the shade; was it blue, grey, or simply enigmatic?

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Not for Now

The Coat and the Beard Bucket