the chase is at last over

you

get tired of shaving.

exhausted 

with the razor and the

shaving

cream,

the new blade

keeping it all neat

and clean

for the ladies.

you're done with it.

you been

shaving since

the peach fuzz got stiff

and hard at

the age of eighteen.

that's why you see so

many old men

gone grey

with beards,

with mustaches and

goatees.

all of them looking like

Walt Whitman

come back from the grave.

they're exhausted

after a few wives

and a dozen

girlfriends, at last

they've given up on

those kind

of things.

they let it grow instead.