I got a hair cut and I do not like it.

I got a hair cut today and I do not like it.

The bangs

are chopped too high,

and hair that was once long

is now chopped short to become one with the bangs.

I know you feel sorry for me

but secretly you want to see the picture.

Here it is.

Wait.

I'm working up

my nerve

to show you.

I really don't like it.

I know

it will grow out,

but in the meantime I will know

it looks ugly

every time I pass a mirror, storefront, back of a spoon, or see the reflection

in my neighbor's special tooth.

I know you want to see it.

I don't want you to.

But

This being

a free state and

July 4th only just passed, reconfirming our freedoms

(even though

I don't think

you seeing my ugly hair

counts as a freedom).

I got a hair cut today and I do not like it.