the 7-, 8-, 9-year-old who cringed from clippers
now inflicts them upon himself, upon his face,
staring himself down with steely eye to trim
beard, neck, mustache without a trace
of the dread that once caused him to shrink,
to shriek, and make a scene each time
his mother applied the machine.
Another childhood fear forsaken
as more grown-up fears awaken
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