Micah Bateman
Shaving Face

Here is a lesson on laceration:
the razor really only slightly hurts;
it's necessary to be well-shaven.

It might be well eased with lubrication,
that slight traction the blade exerts; it may
make pleasanter the laceration, or

perhaps you should follow it with lotion
just in case the edge perverts, but you still
need to be well, shaven. Remember to

tear away the stubble with smooth motion—
it's much easier to be stripped in spurts.
There! is a lesson on laceration.

Of course it leaves us you still unbroken:
it isn't as though effacement subverts; you're
just you at our best when clean-, well- shaven.

You'll smile when you're as smooth as our satis-
faction: no one sticks on layers were cut you
it's just so slight, as laceration, you're
just shaving face, what else could be shaven?

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