The Man Who Was Not Manly Enough
How long can you sustain your COVID-19 beard?
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1 min readMay 16, 2020
I grew out my beard for COVID-19
Mostly in order to just be seen
By everyone on every screen
The first ten minutes in all my Zooms
My beard the entire time consumes
It may be gray, but see how it blooms!
Yet my wife refuses to be close to me
The beard she says doesn’t help you see
It’s nasty, spiky and somewhat dirty
Do I look like I care I ask the mirror
The fairest in the land gets clearer
Each time I note a gentlemen peerer
But daily my spouse does not approve
Which manly desire must I behoove?
To feed the beast or it remove?
Oh Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Melville!
We came so close to conquer the devil
Forgive me for what I now must level!
