shaving cream.

rubbing chins, necks, cheeks, and sideburns

unkempt bed hair and sideswept strays

it's as I fear, from the evidence of heavy bags under swollen eyes,

what a strange sort of five o'clock shadow going on

there is stubble although my face is roughly smooth

and it is smoothly rough with every stroke and rub

exhaustion is a hobby in its own right, I guess

if only such weariness were not tragically glamorized

I'd shave it.