Physical For An Old Woman Picked Up Wandering

Between her legs
the doctor found a goatee

gray as city pigeons
flying through factory smoke

a goatee that hadn't been combed
that hadn't been kept

that quit in fangs
an inch above her knees

poem by Donal Mahoney
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Toinette: Look you, Sir; a beard is something in itself; a beard is half the doctor.

classic line from The Imaginary Invalid, script by Moliere (1673)
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Beware of women with beards and men without beards.

Basque proverbs
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The Goat Convention

The goats held a convention.
“We want liberation! ”
They bleated boldly.

“I want to hear concrete suggestions”,
Advised the chairman gently.
“And tabula rasa”, he added.

The result, however,
Was only a long and silent pause.

Eventually though one goat rose
To say something.
He cleared his throat
And valiantly addressed the assembly:

“Our liberation and the struggle
To achieve equal rights go hand in hand.

So, in view of the fact

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poem by Paul Hartal
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There was an old man with a beard,
Who said: 'It is just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren
Have all built their nests in my beard.'

limerick by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

quote by Don Drysdale
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In The Carolina Woods

HERE you should lie, ye Kings of eld,
Barbarossa, Boabdil,
And Czar Lazar and Charlemagne,
Arthur, Gaelic Finn-
Here where the
muffling Spanish mosses
Forests with forests fill!

Not in a cavern where the winds
Trample with battle-call,
But in these woods where branch and branch
From tree and tree let fall
Not moss, but grey and cobweb beards,
Kings' cabalistic beards!

Here should you sleep your cycles out,
Ye Kings with hoary beards!

poem by Padraic Colum
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Chins without beards deserve no honor.

Spanish proverbs
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God doesn't give more beards than soap.

Russian proverbs
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But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

quote by Bill Walton
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It is merry in hall when beards wag all.

French proverbs
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Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.

Yiddish proverbs
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To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.

Spanish proverbs
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It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all.

Scotch proverbs
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Kindness can pluck the whiskers of a lion.

Moroccan proverbs
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Will The Real David Harris Please Stand Up

Will the real David Harris please stand up?
I say that not in vain,
but because I am not, sure which face I wear.
I could be the man with a full beard
and looks like D H Lawrence,
or maybe the man with a slight goatee
who looks as if he has escaped
from a chain gang somewhere,
I am not really sure.
I could be the man
with the moustache and chin beard
we have often seen on old paperback books,
or I could be the man
with the Clark Gable looks.
Then again I could be the man
who is clean-shaven with a playboy look
whom people call Walter.
Therefore when you meet me
who will be the real me?

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poem by David Harris
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

quote by David Lee Roth
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I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

quote by Dorothy Gish
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Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.

Russian proverbs
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

classic quote by Federico Garcia Lorca
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