Names and Hairdos

by Franco Bertucci

We don't need to do a study.
Names and hairdos make the person.

Thus the parents of Ogden Nash
did unwittingly determine
the genre he would write his verse in.

And my wife dear sealed her fate
the morning she relaxed
and tied our daughter's hair
into one vertical sprout.

Awkward Guy

Poems and other embarassing things. 2011 Franco Bertucci