Oh Say Can You See, My Eyes If You Can, Then My Hair's Too Short

There's a new evil that's been identified in North Korea and the powers of the state are eager to eliminate the threat.  What could it be?

Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Yes.  Apparently parents of the 60's understood the threat long ago.  The North Korean government has identified long hair as the enemy of the people.

The series was entitled "Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle." The program claimed there were "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development," noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy.

  It recommended men should get haircuts every 15 days.

To which I can only respond......

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself

Don't never have to cut it 'cause it stops by itself!  Oops.  Got carried away there.

Yes.  It occurs to me that I often frame stories in relation to song lyrics.  No.  It's not a phenomena that I want to examine too closely.

Yes.  My hair has always been long.  Why do you ask?

Comments

[triticale]

I find it appropriate to trim the ends now and then, because each strand stops by itself at a different length and the end of my ponytail looks rather meager.