
What a joy, my tiny tweezer,
Economic people-pleaser.
No more waxing, money’s tight.
I pull my own hairs out at night.
And lately much to my chagrin
Eyebrows sprout upon my chin.
(Unless the light is set most dimly
I could be seen as Wilfred Brimley.)
Oh implement so small and humble,
Despite your help I often fumble.
But satisfactions of a tweeze
Give pleasures of a full-blown sneeze.
Destruction of an errant stray
Is tweezer-gasm, in a way.
So I exalt you, useful tweezers:
Hair-zap weapons of us geezers.


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Comments
They need help with the amazon jungle coming out of their ears, growing on top of their ears, and the ever popular unibrow.
I'm just like you, I can't live without mine.
That's why God invited tweezers. If not, we'd all look alike....
A funny, silly, cute and well-written ode to the tweezer!
And me too.
Rated
rated for Wilford Brimley :) Good heavens!!!
This was very entertaining, Lea, thank you.
Rated for making my eyes water
i only get two or three. maybe up to four by now. but they are bristly! for now, i am glad to not have a full blown old italian lady mustache.
I've heard of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but the beard thing ...
Ya know, momma never told me about stray hairs and menopause. ::sigh::
Good and bad tweezers?
Rated.
Being able to write funny (in what ever form) is very, very different from serious.
So maybe time, your vacuum??
Who's seldom seen, and then but dimly
'Twas Quaker Oats instead of Wheaties
Until he suffered diabetes
But tho' disease brought on dysfunction
Penile implant restored his function
If thou beist fond of tweezer-gasm
Wait till you share old geezer-gasm
And which is it? Tweezer or tweezers? My dictionary is of no help listing both and then talking about a "pair of tweezers," but meaning one tool. Hello? So does that mean that each side is a tweezers? Can't be. But it also does not mean two tools. So should it be a pair of tweezer make one tweezers? I am totally fumberspuddlfearefarked by this.
Monte
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Tom, a shout-out for talent!
And speaking of sneezing - when I pluck my eyebrows, I almost always sneeze and it is all I can do not to pluck out an eye. (shades of Shakespeare, if I do say so myself). You should try out some Haikus...
Hee hee! Loved this, and love my tweezers (I have some that are gold tipped and more "grabby" for fine hairs). A friend and I agree it's the one beauty aid we can't live without.
And why is it all the hair on my body is turning white except the ones that pop out of places I don't want them to?
I know you must be busy, so it's understandable that you left out the last line. And you and I have been friends so long that I don't feel awkward about adding it here for you:
— Burma Shave
tweezer-gasmically,
moi
I shall be watching out for you on my other posts, as you are a strategic reader I can see, and you may be making comments that I didn't catch.
Whoever your real identity, you are most welcome here!