Which would you prefer?
Years one to four are good
The rest undrinkable –
Surely you don’t want it neat?
A little water you will find
Leaves a green-gold band around the rim
That is fermented honey –
Now add a pinch of sage
This sacred herb will circulate
Good Health to every member
I see you wear a ‘synthesis’ –
All the rage in Athens –
No doubt you’ll feel at home
When singers clowns and New Age poets
Serve their entertainment with your meal
1st CENTURY ROMAN HAIR SALON
‘The Roman Male’ observes
‘Clipped beards are most acceptable this season –
But these should not exceed one inch per hair
The short hairstyle accordingly
Combed forward with a fringe
Might risk appearing simian
If not hot-waxed and curled
Though carefully avoiding suggestion of effeminacy’
‘The Roman| Gentleman’ records
‘Beards once granted degrees of liberality
Have strayed into a dis-array
Two inches now suggest
Effeminacy by seeming to avoid it
In accordance with Austerity we now might recommend
The stubble beard with military crew-cut
Clipped to a graded fade
Bernard Saint
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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