Random Notes from “Coin Operated Barber Shop”
By James Hoff

1.
Meet me at the curtain: me.

The hairdresser’s been maimed
by pizza box ink.

Tell the teller to
number the account
(and hurry those knees).

2.
Pine needle
headache. Kneeling
women. So stuffed

shirts. Cigarettes
and ice cream.

3.
A sneeze
went unnoticed.

4.
A robbery w-

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.
-ild died
swallowing
colored numbers. See

up its sleeve:
all the letters

(doc swore) he
found between

A and B.

10.
A fly sighs.