Girl in a Barber's Shop

Since she rides a little low
For work around the ear,
He jacks the chair up, grips
The slanted handle, jogs
The thighs that press his red
Upholstered man's-chair.

He watches only the length of loose brown hair
Bobble at her ear.

Her high-school voice
Protests, with instructions,
Her incongruity there.

--Robert W. Hill
Appalachian Journal, 1975